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Λύδιος

Λύδιος, of Lydia, Lydian

Λύδιος [ῡ], α, ον,
  • of Lydia, Lydian, αὐλοί Pi. O. 5.19; σύκινα PCair.Zen. 33.12 (iii B.C.); also ος, ον Luc. VH 1.8, Harm. 1: prov., παρὰ τὸ Λύδιον ἅρμα θέειν to be left far behind, Diogenian. 6.28, Greg.Cypr. 2.99, cf. Pi. Fr. 206: Λυδία λίθος, ἡ, a siliceous stone used to assay gold, and first discovered in Lydia, elsewhere βάσανος, Λυδία γὰρ λίθος μανύει χρυσόν B. Fr. 10; also Λ. πέτρη Theoc. 12.36; and ἡ Λ. Anon. in An.Ox. 3.216; Λ. λίθος, of the magnet, S. Fr. 800: Λύδιον, τό, a kind of vase, Λ. μέζω AJA 31.349.

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