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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

  • οἱο͂́ν τι πάσχουσι πρὸσ τὰ αὐλήματα τῶν ποιμένων αἱ σκοπιαὶ ἐπαυλοῦσαι, τῆσ φωνῆσ ἐπανιούσησ κατὰ τὸ ἀντίτυπον καὶ πρὸσ αὑτὴν ἀναστρεφούσησ· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 3:3)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐπιλεξάμενοσ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ καὶ ὀλίγουσ αὐτῶν ὅσοι κορυφαῖοι καὶ ἀναμφιλόγωσ θαυμαστοὶ καὶ ἐπ̓ ἀμφότερα πιστοί, εἰ τούτοισ, φημί, ἐπιδείξαιο τὰ αὐλήματα καὶ οὗτοι ἐπαινέσονταί σε, ἅπασιν Ἕλλησι νόμιζε ἤδη γεγενῆσθαι γνώριμοσ ἐν οὕτω βραχεῖ. (Lucian, Harmonides 5:4)
  • οὐδ’ αὐτά, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, ἀχρεῖα ᾄσματα καὶ αὐλήματα. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 23:9)
  • ἱκανὸν γοῦν καὶ τοῦτο μόνον δηλῶσαί μου τὸν τρόπον, Περίλαοσ κολασθεὶσ καὶ ὁ ταῦροσ ἀνατεθεὶσ καὶ μηκέτι φυλαχθεὶσ πρὸσ ἄλλων κολαζομένων αὐλήματα μηδὲ μελῳδήσασ ἄλλο ἔτι πλὴν μόνα τὰ τοῦ τεχνίτου μυκήματα, καὶ ὅτι ἐν μόνῳ αὐτῷ καὶ πεῖραν ἔλαβον τῆσ τέχνησ καὶ κατέπαυσα τὴν ἄμουσον ἐκείνην καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον ᾠδήν. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 13:2)
  • "οἱ δὲ Καρδιηνοὶ πάντεσ τοὺσ ἵππουσ ἐδίδαξαν ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ ὀρχεῖσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν αὐλῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀπισθίων ποδῶν ἱστάμενοι τοῖσ προσθίοισ ὥσπερ χειρονομέοντεσ ὠρχοῦντο ἐξεπιστάμενοι τὰ αὐλήματα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 19 1:9)

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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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