Definition of Labda

1. a Greek letter [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Labda

laaris
lab
lab bench
lab coat
lab coats
lab on a chip
labadist
labanotation
labanotations
labara
labarraque's solution
labarum
labarums
labcoat
labcoats
labda (current term)
labdane
labdanes
labdanum
labdanums
labdas
labefaction
labefied
labefies
labefy
label
label cloud
label clouds
label scars
labelable

Literary usage of Labda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1892)
"It happened, however, by a providential chance, that the babe, just as labda put him into the man s arms, smiled in his face ! The man saw the smile and was ..."

2. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1885)
"Now it happened that Amphion, one of these, had a daughter named labda, who was lame, ... of honor:— labda shall soon be a mother,—her offspring a rock, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"Not less touching is the story of labda and the infant Cypselus, ... labda, in the pride uf her heart and suspecting uo barm, gave it to one of them, ..."

4. Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr ; with a by Herodotus, Henry Cary, Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1848)
"Amphion, one of these men, had a lame daughter, her name was labda: as no one of ... labda is pregnant, and will bring forth a round stone; it will fall on ..."

5. History of Greece, and of the Greek People, from the Earliest Times to the by Victor Duruy, M. M. Ripley, John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"labda, knowing nothing of the errand on which they had come, and supposing they ... When, however, labda brought and gave it to one of them, the child, ..."

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