Λέων

Where it lives

• For Polystratus 1 · 5.24/10k
• Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
• Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
• History 15 · 1/10k
• Hellenica 6 · 0.91/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
• Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
• Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
• Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
• Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Λέοντι · Leonti Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 72)
• Λέοντα · Leonta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1232)
• Λέοντός · Leontos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2684)
• Λέοντος · Leontos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4255)
• Λέοντος · Leontos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7099)
• Λέοντι · Leonti Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.5 (DIORISIS sentence 7614)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Λέων (scan p. 901; entry #3733).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Λέων (scan p. 652; entry #4797).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Λέων (scan p. 1085; entry #3552).

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