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λείβ-ηθρον

leibethron · τό

wet country

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What it meant

λείβ-ηθρον · leib-ēthron — LSJ

wet country, place

wet country or place, Eup. 428, e Phot. (ubi λίβηθρα et sic Kock), cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 244.

2 channel

channel, Phot., Lex.Rhet. ap. Eust. 1235.58.

II

Λείβηθρον, τό, mountain district of Thrace inhabited by Orpheus, Str. 9.2.25, etc.; τὸ Λιβήθριον Paus. 9.34.4: the inhabitants were proverbially dull, whence the phrases ᾄδειν ἀμουσότερα Λειβηθρίων Aristaenet. 1.27; Λειβηθρίων ἀνοητότεροι Thugen. 4.

Where it came from

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