Λιβύη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], ἡ, [[Libya]], <span class="bibl">Od.4.85</span>, <span class="bibl">14.295</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.46</span>, etc.; also for [[Africa]] generally, <span class="bibl">Id.4.42</span>, al.; <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> the west bank of the [[Nile]], PTaur.8.9 (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>1.3.8</span> (ii B.C.): prov., [[ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν]] = [[Libya always bears something new]] or [[ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι κακόν]] = [[Libya always bears something bad]] <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>606b20</span>, <span class="bibl">Zen.2.51</span> cf. Pliny: ex [[Africa]] [[semper]] [[aliquid]] [[novi]] = out of Africa there is always something new:—Adv. [[Λιβύηθεν|Λῐβύηθεν]], [[from Libya]], <span class="bibl">D.P. 46</span>, <span class="bibl">222</span>:—also [[Λιβύηθε|Λῐβύηθε]], Dor. [[Λιβύαθε|Λῐβῠᾱθε]], <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>368</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.24</span>:—Adj. [[Λιβυκός|Λῐβῠκός]], [[Λιβυκή]], [[Λιβυκόν]], [[Libyan]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.8</span>, etc.; Λιβυκὸν [[ὄρνεον]], i.e. a [[strange]], [[foreign]] [[bird]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>65</span>; <b class="b3">Λιβυκοὶ λόγοι</b> a kind of [[fable]]s resembling those of [[Aesop]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1393a30</span>; also, [[western]], <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Tetr.</span>119</span>; = [[δυτικός]], <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">Par.Ptol.</span>29</span>.</span>