Λυδῶν (Lydon)

Λυδῶν is an Ancient Greek form of Λυδός, meaning “Lydian”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 117 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.105: … δʼ εἰς τὸν βίον ἄγκυράν τε καὶ κεραμικὸν τροχόν, ὥς τινες. Καὶ ἐπέστειλεν ὧδε· Ἀνάχαρσις Κροίσῳ “Ἐγώ, βασιλεῦ Λυδῶν, ἀφῖγμαι εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, διδαθησόμενος ἤθη τὰ τούτων καὶ ἐπιτηδεύματα. χρυσοῦ δʼ οὐδὲ δέομαι, ἀλλʼ ἀπόχρ …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 38.19: ἢ τὰ Λύδων ἄρματα κἂν ὄπλοισι

All forms of Λυδός (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.