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Λυσίᾳ (Lysia)

Λυσίᾳ is an Ancient Greek form of λύσιος, meaning “releasing, delivering”. It is the nominative dual feminine noun or adjective or dative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.40: … ων. 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 τὸ πλέον δικανικὸς ἢ ἐμφιλόσοφος.

Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum 5.1: Ἰσαῖος Χαλκιδεὺς; μὲν ἦν τὸ γένος, παραγενόμενος δʼ εἰς Ἀθήνας, καὶ σχολάσας·ʼ Λυσίᾳ κατά τε τὴν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἁρμονίαν καὶ τὴν ἐν τοῖς πράγμασι δεινότητα, ὥστʼ εἰ μή τις ἔμπειρος πάνυ τοῦ χαρακτ …

All forms of λύσιος (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.