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λύτρων (lytron)

λύτρων is an Ancient Greek form of λύτρον, meaning “ransom”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 29.3: … λάτει τὴν Φαρναβάζου χώραν οὐδενὸς ἀμύνεσθαι τολμῶντος. ἱερεῖς μέντοι καὶ ἱερείας ἔλαβε μέν, ἀλλʼ ἀφῆκεν ἄνευ λύτρων. Χαλκηδονίοις δʼ ἀφεστῶσι καὶ δεδεγμένοις φρουρὰν καὶ ἁρμοστὴν Λακεδαιμονίων ὡρμημένος πολεμεῖν, ἀκούσας δʼ ὅ …

All forms of λύτρον (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.