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λιμῷ (limo)

λιμῷ is an Ancient Greek form of λιμός, meaning “hunger, famine”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 271 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1245: λιμῷ δʼ αἰθόμενος μετανίσσεται, οὐδʼ ἐπέκυρσεν

Aristophanes, Acharnians 743: ἄπρατα, πειρασεῖσθε τᾶς λιμῶ κακῶς.

Lucian of Samosata, Timon 31: … ἡ Πενία πάρεστι καὶ ὁ Πόνος ἐκεῖνος, ἡ Καρτερία τε καὶ ἡ Σοφία καὶ ἡ Ἀνδρεία καὶ ὁ τοιοῦτος ὄχλος τῶν ὑπὸ τῷ Λιμῷ ταττομένων ἁπάντων, πολὺ ἀμείνους τῶν σῶν δορυφόρων. τί οὖν οὐκ ἀπαλλαττόμεθα, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, τὴν ταχίστην; οὐ γὰρ ἄ …

All forms of λιμός (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.