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λήϊον

leion1 · τό

standing crop

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What it meant

λήϊον · lēion — LSJ

standing crop

standing crop, ὡς δʼ ὅτε κινήσῃ Ζέφυρος βαθὺ λ. Il. 2.147, al., cf. Hes. Sc. 288, Hdt. 1.19, Pherecr. 20 (pl.); τοῦ σίτου τὸ λ. Arist. HA 612a32; λ. σίτου βαθύ Arr. An. 1.4.1; λήϊά τε σταχύων IG 14.1389ii 10.

2 corn-field

in later Poets, also, corn-field, Theoc. 10.42 (in Dor. form); ληΐου κόμῃ Babr. 88.3.

3 booty

= λεία, booty, SIG 3g (Susa, from Didyma, v B.C.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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