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λοιδορίαν (loidorian)

λοιδορίαν is an Ancient Greek form of λοιδορία, meaning “abuse, reviling”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.24: … ίου πρέσβεις ἀφικόμενοι καὶ βουλόμενοι μαθεῖν τί εἴποιεν παρʼ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα. ἐρωτηθεὶς πῶς ἔχει πρὸς λοιδορίαν, καθάπερ, εἶπεν, εἰ πρεσβευτὴς ἀναπόκριτος ἀποστέλλοιτο. φησὶ δʼ Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τύριος, ἕλκοντος αὐτὸν Κράτητος …

All forms of λοιδορία (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.