Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Λυδιστί

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Principal Part: Λυδιστί

Sense

  1. in the Lydian tongue, after the Lydian fashion, in the Lydian mode

Examples

  • τὴν δὲ Φρυγιστὶ καὶ τὴν Λυδιστὶ παρὰ τῶν βαρβάρων οὔσασ γνωσθῆναι τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἀπὸ τῶν σὺν Πέλοπι κατελθόντων εἰσ τὴν Πελοπόννησον Φρυγῶν καὶ Λυδῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 212)
  • "διένειμε δὲ ἑκάστῃ χώρᾳ τὰσ τρεῖσ ἁρμονίασ, τήν τε δωριστὶ καὶ φρυγιστὶ καὶ λυδιστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:23)
  • "ἴτω δὲ καὶ τραγῳδίασ ὁ Κλεομάχου διδάσκαλοσ μετ’ αὐτόν, ὁ παρατιλτριῶν ἔχων χορὸν λυδιστὶ τιλλουσῶν μέλη πονηρά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:61)
  • καὶ Φρυγίου καὶ Λυδίου, ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν εἰρημένων τόνων στροφὴν ποιήσαντά φασι τὸν Σακάδαν διδάξαι ᾄδειν τὸν χορὸν Δωριστὶ μὲν τὴν πρώτην, Φρυγιστὶ δὲ τὴν δευτέραν, Λυδιστὶ δὲ τὴν τρίτην· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 8 3:1)
  • Ὄλυμπον γὰρ πρῶτον Ἀριστόξενοσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Μουσικῆσ ἐπὶ τῷ Πύθωνί φησιν ἐπικήδειον αὐλῆσαι Λυδιστί. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 15 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. in the Lydian tongue

Related

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

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