Λυκαονία
ῥύπος γυνὴ πέφυκεν ἠργυρωμένος → woman is silver-plated dirt, woman is dirt covered with silver
English (LSJ)
ἡ, district in the S. of Asia Minor, X.An.1.2.19, etc.:— the people were Λυκάονες, οἱ, ib.3.2.23, Arist.Fr.151. Adv. λῠκανθρωπ-ιστί,
A in Lycaonian, Act.Ap.14.11.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Λυκαονία: ἡ, ἐπαρχία τις πρὸς νότον τῆς Μικρᾶς Ἀσίας, Ξεν., κτλ.˙ οἱ κάτοικοι ἐκαλοῦντο Λυκάονες, οἱ, αὐτόθι˙ - Ἐπίρρ. -ιστί, ἐν τῇ Λυκαονικῇ διαλέκτῳ, Πράξ. Ἀποστ. ιδ΄, 11.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
Lycaonie, contrée d’Asie mineure, dont les villes principales étaient Derbè, Lystre et Icone.
English (Strong)
perhaps remotely from λύκος; Lycaonia, a region of Asia Minor: Lycaonia.
English (Thayer)
Λυκαονίας, ἡ, Lycaonia, a region of Asia Minor, situated between Pisidia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Galatia and Phrygia, whose chief cities were Lystra, Derbe and Iconium (cf. references in Lightfoot on Colossians , p. 1). Its inhabitants spoke a peculiar and strange tongue the character of which cannot be determined: Winer's RWB, under the word; Lassen, Zeitschr. d. deutsch. morgenl. Gesellsch. x. ('56), p. 378; (Wright, Hittites (1884), p. 56).
