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ἄλυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλυρος

Structure: ἀλυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/ra

Sense

  1. without the lyre

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • <ποτνίασ δ’ ἐμᾶσ,> ἔνθεν οἰκτρὸν ἀνεβόασεν, ὅμαδον ἔκλυον, ἄλυρον ἔλεγον, ὅτι ποτ’ ἔλακεν αἰάγμα σι στένουσα, Νύμφα τισ οἱᾶ Ναὶ̈σ ὄρεσι φυγάδα νόμον ἱεῖσα γοερόν, ὑπὸ δὲ πέτρινα γύαλα κλαγγαῖσι Πανὸσ ἀναβοᾷ γάμουσ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • Διρκαίων ἅ ποτ’ ἐκ τόπων νέουσ πεδαίρουσ’ ἄλυρον ἀμφὶ μοῦσαν ὀλομέναν τ’ Ἐρινὺν ἔφερεσ ἔφερεσ ἄχεα πατρίδι φόνια· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 12)
  • ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν, ὅπωσ οὐκ ἔχει, ὁποτέρωσ ἂν ᾖ χρήσιμον, ὅθεν καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα οἱ ποιηταὶ φέρουσιν, τὸ ἄχορδον καὶ τὸ ἄλυρον μέλοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 6 7:3)
  • εὐδοκιμεῖ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐν ταῖσ μεταφοραῖσ λεγόμενον ταῖσ ἀνάλογον, οἱο͂ν τὸ φάναι τὴν σάλπιγγα ἱέναι μέλοσ ἄλυρον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 6 7:5)

Synonyms

  1. without the lyre

Related

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

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