Λιβύης (Libyes)

Λιβύης is an Ancient Greek form of Λιβύη, meaning “Libya”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 329 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.81: πλαγχθέντας Λιβύης ἐνὶ πείρασι δῃωθῆναι,

Polybius, Histories 12.26a.2: καὶ γὰρ τῆς Λιβύης ἁπάσης συνεχῶς οἰκουμένης καὶ πληθυούσης ἀνθρώπων, ὅμως ἐν ταῖς παροιμίαις, ὅταν περὶ ἐρημίας ἔμφασιν βουλώμεθα ποιῆσαι, λέγειν ἡμᾶς "3ἐρημότερα τῆς Λιβύησ"3, οὐκ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν φέροντας τὸν λόγον, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνανδρίαν τῶν κατοικούντων.

All forms of Λιβύη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.