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Λυσίου (Lysiou)

Λυσίου is an Ancient Greek form of Λυσίας, meaning “Lysias — Lysias, Athenian orator”.

It can also be a form of Λύσιος, “Lysios — Lysios (the Deliverer; epithet of Dionysus)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 104 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.40: … τερα δὲ καινὰ δαιμόνια εἰσηγούμενος· ἀδικεῖ δὲ καὶ τοὺς νέους διαφθείρων. τίμημα θάνατος. ὁ δʼ οὖν φιλόσοφος, Λυσίου γράψαντος ἀπολογίαν αὐτῷ, διαναγνοὺς ἔφη, καλὸς μὲν ὁ λόγος, ὦ Λυσία, οὐ μὴν ἁρμόττων γʼ ἐμοί. δηλαδὴ γὰρ ἦν …

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.