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ἐλευθ-ερία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.freedom, liberty, Pi.P.1.61, Hdt.1.62,95; “ἐλευθερίας φῶς” A.Ch.809(lyr.), cf. 863 (anap.); δι᾽ ἐλευθερίας μόλις ἐξῆλθες, i.e. μόλις ἠλευθερώθης, S.El.1509(anap.); “ὑπῆρξαν ἐλευθερίας τῆ Ἑλλάδι” And.1.142; freedom from a thing, “ἀπὸ πασῶν ἀρχῶν” Pl.Lg. 698a; “τινός” Id.R.329c, cf. AP6.228 (Adaeus).
b. manumission, ἡ εἰκοστὴ τῶν ἐ.,= Lat. vicesima manumissionum, BGU326ii 11 (ii A.D.).
2. licence, ἀκολασία καὶ ἐ. Pl.Grg.492c; of Diogenes, Jul.Or. 6.185c.
3. later, = ἐλευθεριότης, UPZ62.7.
4. name of a dance, S.E.M.1.293.
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):
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 809
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 863
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 142
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.62
    • Plato, Laws, 698a
    • Plato, Republic, 329c
    • Plato, Gorgias, 492c
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1509
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