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Definition of Labrys
1. a double-headed axe [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labrys
Literary usage of Labrys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1885)
"... for the Lydians call the axe labrys (\l'6oi -yap ... It is, of course, perfectly
clear that this Zeus of the Axe, or of the labrys, ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"The Lydian name of the trophy was labrys, and at Labranda there was an ancient
temple of the Karian Zeus, where this labrys had long lain, ..."
3. Wiener Studien by Universität Wien Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Kommission für antike Literatur und lateinische Tradition, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Kirchenväter-Kommission (1879)
"... in ansprechender Weise mit der labrys zusammengebracht und ein ... auf uns
gekommen ist, und wenn wir •> labrys, Rh. Mus. NF LXI <1906> 152. s> So bei ..."
4. Religions of the Past and Present: A Series of Lectures Delivered by Members by James Alan Montgomery (1918)
"Its native name, labrys, ... Already on philological grounds it had been suggested
that the Greek word Labyrinthos was derived from labrys. ..."
5. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ by Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan (1863)
"... holding in his right hand the labrys, which rests on his shoulder; in his left
he holds a sceptre/ The labrys is a well-known type on coins of Caria, ..."
6. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"On walls and pillars are frequent markings of a religious symbol shaped like a
double axe and called labrys; undoubtedly the palace was the center of the ..."
7. The Four in Crete by Gertrude Harper Beggs (1915)
"together and decides that this palace is the house of the labrys, that is, of
the ax sacred to Zeus. And he connects this with the story that Minos had a ..."
8. Orpheus: A General History of Religions by Salomon Reinach (1909)
"The double axe was called a labrys; it has been suggested that ... It has even
been suggested that the name and symbol of the axe labrys were the originals ..."
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