Λίνος

Where it lives

• 2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
• Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5 · 0.47/10k
• Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
• Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

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

• Λίνον · Linon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 322)
• Λίνος · Linos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 10)
• Λίνον · Linon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 22)
• Λίνον · Linon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 16)
• Λίνον · Linon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 21)
• Λίνον · Linon Euripides, Heracles 348–351

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Where it came from

• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Λίνος (scan p. 659; entry #4851).

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