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Λάρι_σα [α_ρ], ἡ (not Λάρισσα, v. Arc.77.14, IG9(2).60.5, 525.5, al., but Λαρισσέοις ib.9(2).6c3), Larissa, a name of many old Greek cities, Il.2.841, etc.; Pelasgic acc. to Str.9.5.19, 13.3.2: an Ion. form Λήρισαι (in Aeolis) occurs in Hdt.1.149; orig. it denoted a
A.citadel, such as the Larissa of Argos, St.Byz., Sch. A.R. 1.40.
II. Adj. Λα_ρι_σαῖος , α, ον, Larissaean, of or from Larissa, Th.2.22, X.HG 3.1.7, etc.; Ion. Ληρις - Hdt.9.1 and 58:—also Λαρίσιος and Λαρισηνός as epith. of Zeus, Str.9.5.19, 13.3.2.
2. Λα_ρι_σαῖοι ἑ<*>ητῆρες Larissaean pots for boiling, AP6.305 (Leon.); λα_ρι_σοποιοί for λαρισαιοποιοί, either makers of Larissaean pots, or makers of Larissaean citizens, of the δημιουργοί (magistrates), Gorg. ap. Arist.Pol.1275b30.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.1
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.149
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.841
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.3.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.5.19
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.22
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.1.7
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.40
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