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Γυμνοπαιδίαι

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Γυμνοπαιδίαι

Sense

  1. at which boys went through gymnastic exercises

Examples

  • καὶ αἱ γυμνοπαιδίαι ^ δὲ αὐτοῖσ ὁμοίωσ ὄρχησίσ ἐστιν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 12:2)
  • γυμνοπαιδίαι γὰρ ἦσαν ἀγωνιζομένων χορῶν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ· (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 29 2:4)
  • ἦσαν μὲν δὴ γυμνοπαιδίαι, θεωμένου δὲ τοῦ Δημαρήτου ὁ Λευτυχίδησ γεγονὼσ ἤδη βασιλεὺσ αὐτὸσ ἀντ’ ἐκείνου, πέμψασ τὸν θεράποντα ἐπὶ γέλωτί τε καὶ λάσθῃ εἰρώτα τὸν Δημάρητον ὁκοῖόν τι εἰή τὸ ἄρχειν μετὰ τὸ βασιλεύειν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 67 3:1)
  • Χορὸσ δὲ οὗτοσ ὁ τόποσ καλεῖται πᾶσ, ὅτι ἐν ταῖσ γυμνοπαιδίαισ ‐ ἑορτὴ δὲ εἴ τισ ἄλλη καὶ αἱ γυμνοπαιδίαι διὰ σπουδῆσ Λακεδαιμονίοισ εἰσίν ‐ ἐν ταύταισ οὖν οἱ ἔφηβοι χοροὺσ ἱστᾶσι τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 15:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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