The corpus record

Λίβῠς

*libus · ὁ

a Libyan, serpent

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Economics 2 · 3.23/10k
Histories 56 · 3.05/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Ezechiel 3 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Λίβῠς · Libys — LSJ

a Libyan

a Libyan, Hdt. 4.181, al., S. El. 702, etc.: and as Adj., = Λιβυκός, αὐλός E. Alc. 346; Λ. καυλός, = σίλφιον, Antiph. 217.13:—fem. Λίβυσσα [ῐ], Pi. P. 9.105, S. Fr. 11, Hdt. 4.189, Call. Ap. 86, Riv.Fil. 57.379 (Crete):—also Λῐβυστικός, ή, όν, A. Eu. 292, Fr. 139, etc.; fem. also Λῐβυστίς, ίδος, ἡ, A.R. 4.1753; cf. Λιβύη.

II serpent

harmless kind of serpent, Nic. Th. 490.

III

= λουτροφόρος 2, Hsch.

In the wild

Λίβυς · Libys Aristotle, Economics 1345a (DIORISIS sentence 92)
Λίβυος · Libyos Aristotle, Economics 1345a (DIORISIS sentence 90)
Λιβύων · Libyōn Aristotle, Politics 1262a (DIORISIS sentence 386)
Λίβυν · Libyn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 3)
Λιβυσσᾶν · Libyssan Euripides, Bacchae 988–991
Λίβυν · Libyn Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 133)

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Where it came from

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