Λίγυς

Where it lives

• Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
• Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
• History 1 · 0.07/10k

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

• Λιγύων · Ligyōn Herodotus, Histories 7.165.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8019)
• Λίγυες · Ligyes Herodotus, Histories 7.72.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7511)
• Λιγύων · Ligyōn Herodotus, Histories 7.72.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7513)
• Λιγύων · Ligyōn Plato, Phaedrus 237 (DIORISIS sentence 213)
• Λιγύων · Ligyōn Thucydides, History 6.2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4069)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Λίγυς (scan p. 908; entry #3762).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Λίγυς (scan p. 656; entry #4833).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Λίγυς (scan pp. 1093-1094; entry #3577).

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