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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

  • οὗτοσ δ’ ἀπὸ πάντων μὲν φέρει, πορνιδίων, σκολίων Μελήτου, Καρικῶν αὐλημάτων, θρήνων, χορειῶν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric 1:4)
  • ὅταν μέν τινα τῶν Ἰσοκράτουσ ἀναγινώσκω λόγων, εἴτε τῶν πρὸσ τὰ δικαστήρια καὶ τὰσ ἐκκλησίασ γεγραμμένων ἢ τῶν ἐν ἤθει σπουδαῖοσ γίνομαι καὶ πολὺ τὸ εὐσταθὲσ ἔχω τῆσ γνώμησ, ὥσπερ οἱ τῶν σπονδείων αὐλημάτων ἢ τῶν Δωρίων τε κἀναρμονίων μελῶν ἀκροώμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 221)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο τῆσ εἰρεσίασ ἀναφερομένησ μετὰ ῥυθμοῦ τινοσ, ἀπήντα ψόφοσ, ὥσπερ ἐν κοπετῷ, ταῖσ τῶν αὐλημάτων περιόδοισ· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 53 3:1)
  • καὶ ὑπὸ μὲν δὴ τῶν αὐλημάτων καὶ ἐγὼ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ τοιαῦτα πεπόνθασιν ὑπὸ τοῦδε τοῦ σατύρου· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 481:1)
  • κἀγὼ γνοὺσ αὐτὸν θαυμάζοντα, ἆρα οὐκ οἶσθα, ἔφην, ὦ Κλεινία, ὅτι περὶ αὐλημάτων εὐπραγίαν οἱ αὐληταὶ εὐτυχέστατοί εἰσιν; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 83:10)

Related

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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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