Λαζική (Lazike)

Λαζική means “Lazica — the land of the Lazi (Colchis) on the Black Sea”.

Ancient Greek word, found 76 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini 18.3: … ἄκραν, ἵναπερ σκέπη ἐστὶν ἀνέμου θρᾳσκίου καὶ βορρᾶ, ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν. ἐνθένδε ἐς τὴν καλουμένην Παλαιὰν Λαζικὴν

Procopius, De Bellis 1.11.28: πολλοὶ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἄλλοι λόγοι πρὸς ἀμφοτέρων ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐν σφίσι διαφόρων ἐλέγοντο, καὶ γῆν δὲ τὴν Κολχίδα ἣ νῦν Λαζικὴ ἐπικαλεῖται Σεόσης ἔλεγε Περσῶν κατήκοον τὸ ἀνέκαθεν οὖσαν βιασαμένους λόγῳ οὐδενὶ Ῥωμαίους ἔχειν.

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.