ου (ἡ) Lesbos (auj. Lésvos) î. de la mer Égée, IL. 24, 544 ; 2, 129, etc. ; OD. 3, 169, etc. ; XÉN. Hell. 1, 2, 11, etc.

➳ Λέσσϐος dans une inscr. att. CIA. 2, add. 52, c, 32 (368 av. J.C.) v. Meisterh. p. 69, 14.

ἡ, Lesbos, Il. 24.544, Od. 4.342, etc. ; the seventh in magnitude of islands known to the Greeks, Alex. 268.6; — hence Adv. Λεσβόθεν, from Lesbos, Il. 9.664; Λεσβόθι, at Lesbos, EM 25.15; — Adj. Λέσβιος, α, ον, Sappho 92, Hdt. 1.23, etc. ; prov., μετὰ Λέσβιον ᾠδόν, of those who are judged second best, Cratin. 243; Λέσβιον κῦμα or κυμάτιον, v. κῦμα 1.3, A. Fr. 78, Vitr. 4.6.2; so τὸ Λέσβιον (without κ.) PCair. Zen. 445.11 (iii BC); Λεσβία οἰκοδομία Arist. EN 1137b30; Λ. πώματος οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλος οἶνος ἡδίων πιεῖν Alex. 274, cf. Philyll. 24; ἡδίων ὁ Λ. (sc. οἶνος), with a play on words, indicating a preference for Theophrastus (of Lesbos) over Eudemus (of Rhodes), Arist. ap. Gell. 13.5. Λέσβιον, τό, part of a ship, ἡ δευτέρα τρόπις acc. to Poll. 1.85.
drinking-cup, Hedyl. ap. Ath. 11.486b.

Place, proper name

• important island in the eastern Aegean, also Mytilene. (TOPOS text)