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αὔλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὔλημα

Structure: αὐληματ (Stem)

Etym.: au)le/w

Sense

  1. a piece of music for the flute

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνο τὸ Φρύγιον τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ εἶδοσ, τὸ παροίνιον καὶ συμποτικόν, μετὰ μέθησ γιγνόμενον ἀγροίκων πολλάκισ πρὸσ αὔλημα γυναικεῖον ὀρχουμένων σφοδρὰ καὶ καματηρὰ ^ πηδήματα, καὶ νῦν ἔτι ταῖσ ἀγροικίαισ ἐπιπολάζοντα,^ ὑπ’ ἀγνοίασ παρέλιπον, ἀλλ’ ὅτι μηδὲν ταῦτα τῇ νῦν ὀρχήσει κοινωνεῖ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 34:4)
  • ὅταν οὖν ὁ Ἀντισθένησ ὅδ’ ἐλέγχῃ τινὰ ἐν τῷ συμποσίῳ, τί ἔσται τὸ αὔλημα; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 6 6:2)
  • φασί ποτε Ἀλεξἀνδρῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸν αὐλητὴν Τιμόθεον τὸ πρῶτον ἐπιδεικνύμενον αὐλῆσαι κατὰ τὸν ἐκείνου τρόπον μάλα ἐμπείρωσ καὶ μουσικῶσ, οὐ μαλακὸν αὔλημα οὐδὲ ἀναβεβλημένον οὐδὲ τῶν πρὸσ ἄνεσιν καὶ ῥᾳθυμίαν ἀγόντων, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸν οἶμαι τὸν ὄρθιον τὸν τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ ἐπικαλούμενον νόμον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:1)
  • ὀλίγον δὲ τῆσ ἐπὶ Κυλάραβιν καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ πύλην ἀποτραπεῖσι Σακάδα μνῆμά ἐστιν, ὃσ τὸ αὔλημα τὸ Πυθικὸν πρῶτοσ ηὔλησεν ἐν Δελφοῖσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 12:2)
  • τούτου δὲ ἕνεκα καὶ τὸ αὔλημα τὸ Πυθικόν φασι τῷ πηδήματι ἐπεισαχθῆναι τῶν πεντάθλων, ὡσ τὸ μὲν ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ τὸ αὔλημα ὄν, τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα δὲ ἀνῃρημένον Ὀλυμπικὰσ νίκασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 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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