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λύσας (lysas)

λύσας is an Ancient Greek form of λύω, meaning “loose, release, set free; pay a ransom”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.10.112: … τόν· Κρόνε Διόδωρε, τίς σε δαιμόνων κακῇ ἀθυμίῃ ξυνείρυσεν, ἵνʼ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν ἐμβάλῃς εἰς Τάρταρον Στίλπωνος οὐ λύσας ἔπη αἰνιγματώδη; τοιγὰρ εὑρέθης Κρόνος ἔξωθε τοῦ ῥῶ κάππα τε. Τῶν δʼ ἀπʼ Εὐκλείδου ἐστὶ καὶ Ἰχθύας Μετάλλου, …

All forms of λύω (conjugation 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.