Λῐβύη [ῠ], ἡ,
[[ “Libya”, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.85, 14.295, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.46, etc.; also for “Africa” generally, [prev. author] 4.42, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; the west bank of the Nile, [[ PTaur. 8.9 (2nd c.BC), “PLond.” 1.3.8 (2nd c.BC): proverbial, ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν or κακόν, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 606b20, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 2.51 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— adverb Λῐβύηθεν, from Libya, [[ 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 46, 222 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—also Λῐβύηθε, Doric dialect Λῐβῠ-ᾱθε, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 368, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.24 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— adjective Λῐβῠκός, ή, όν, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Λ. ὄρνεον, i.e. a strange, foreign bird, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Λ. λόγοι a kind of fables resembling those of Aesop, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1393a30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also, western, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 119 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ={δυτικός}, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Paraphrasis Ptolemaei Tetrabiblou” 29. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]