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Ἕλλην , ηνος, ὁ, Hellen, son of Deucalion, Hes.Fr.7.1.
II. Ἕλληνες, οἱ, the Thessalian tribe of which Hellen was the reputed chief, Il.2.684.
2. of all Greeks, Epigr. ap. Paus.10.7.6, Hdt.1.56, Th.1.3, etc.; cf.Πανέλληνες.
3. Gentiles, whether heathens or Christians, opp. Jews, LXXIs.9.12, Ev.Jo.7.35, etc.
4. non-Egyptian (incl. Persians, etc.), PTeb.5.169 (ii B.C.).
5. pagan, Jul.Ep.114, Eun. VS p.524B., Dam.Isid.204, Cod.Just.1.11.10.
III. as Adj.,= “Ἑλληνικός, στρατός” Pi.N.10.25, etc.: with fem. Subst., “Ἕλλην᾽ ἐπίσταμαι φάτιν” A.Ag.1254; “στολήν γ᾽ Ἕλληνα” E.Heracl.130; “Ἕ. γυνή” Philem.55; Ἕ. ἀληθῶς οὖσα, of fortune, Apollod.Car.5.10; “Πυλῶν Ἑλλήνων” D.18.304: with neut.Subst., “ἐν χωρίῳ Ἕλληνι” Them.Or.27.332d.
IV. those who spoke or wrote Hellenistic Greek, opp. “Ἀττικοί, ἄρτι: οἱ μὲν Ἀ. τὸ πρὸ ὀλίγου, οἱ δὲ Ἕ. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ νῦν λέγουσι” Moer. 68, al., cf. POxy.1012Fr.16; opp. οἱ παλαιοί, Moer.145.
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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