λύραν (lyran)

λύραν is an Ancient Greek form of λύρα, meaning “lyre”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.24: ᾠδαῖς χρῆσθαι πρὸς λύραν ὕμνῳ τε θεῶν καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν εὔλογον χάριν ἔχειν. τῶν δὲ κυάμων ἀπέχεσθαι διὰ τὸ πνευματώδεις ὄντας μάλιστα …

Plutarch, Caesar 59.3: … καὶ βαρυνομένοις τὴν δύναμιν αἰτίας παρεῖχε. Κικέρων γοῦν ὁ ῥήτωρ, ὡς ἔοικε, φήσαντός τινος αὔριον ἐπιτέλλειν Λύραν, ναὶ, εἶπεν, ἐκ διατάγματος. ὡς καὶ τοῦτο πρὸς ἀνάγκην τῶν ἀνθρώπων δεχομένων.

Plutarch, Non Posse Suaviter Vivi Secundum Epicurum 26: … ι ταράσσονται καὶ δυσανασχετοῦσι τούτων λεγομένων, ὡς τὸ ἔπειτα κείσεται βαθυδένδρῳ ἐν χθονὶ συμποσίων τε καὶ λυρᾶν ἄμοιρος ἰαχᾶς τε παντερπέος αὐλῶν· καί ἀνδρὸς δὲ ψυχὴ πάλιν ἐλθεῖν οὔτε λεϊστὴ οὔτε ἑλετή, ἐπεὶ ἄρ κεν ἀμείψε …

All forms of λύρα (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.