λῷον (loon)

λῷον is an Ancient Greek form of λωίων, meaning “better, more desirable”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.61: ἐπιτιμῶντα αὐτῷ εἰπεῖν· ἀλλʼ εἴ μοι κἂν νῦν ἔτι πείσεαι, ἔξελε τοῦτον· μηδὲ μέγαιρʼ ὅτι σεῦ λῷον ἐπεφρασάμην· καὶ μεταποίησον, Λιγυαστάδη, ὧδε δʼ ἄειδε· ὀγδωκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου. Τῶν δὲ ᾀδομένων αὐτ …

Plutarch, Alexander 3.3: ἐγεννήθη δʼ οὖν Ἀλέξανδρος ἱσταμένου μηνὸς Ἑκατομβαιῶνος, ὃν Μακεδόνες Λῷον καλοῦσιν, ἕκτῃ, καθʼ ἣν ἡμέραν ὁ τῆς Ἐφεσίας Ἀρτέμιδος ἐνεπρήσθη νεώς ᾧ γʼ Ἡγησίας ὁ Μάγνης ἐπιπεφώνηκεν ἐπιφ …

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.7.2: … ι, τοὺς δὲ τέτταρας ἀνῃρῆσθαι, καὶ θαυμάζοντος αὐτοῦ φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ γενέσθαι φράζουσαν ὡς τοῦτο τῇ Σπάρτῃ λῷόν ἐστι.

All forms of λωίων (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.