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αὔλησις?

Adjective; Transliteration: aulēsis

Principal Part: αὔλησις

Etym.: αὐλέω

Sense

  1. flute-playing

Examples

  • παρὰ δὲ Συρακοσίοις καὶ Χιτωνέας Ἀρτέμιδος ὄρχησὶς τίς ἐστιν ἴδιος καὶ αὔλησις. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 1:4)
  • "τέλεια μὲν αὐτό τε τῶν ποιημάτων ἕκαστον, οἱο῀ν τὸ ᾀδόμενον ἢ αὐλούμενον ἢ κιθαριζόμενον καὶ ἡ ἑκάστου αὐτῶν ἑρμηνεία, οἱο῀ν ἥ τ αὔλησις καὶ ἡ ᾠδὴ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν τοιούτων: (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 367)
  • ἆρ ἔστιν αὔλησίς τι πρᾶγμα· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 13:1)
  • -- ἄνθρωπος οὖν αὔλησίς ἐστιν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 13:3)

Synonyms

  1. flute-playing

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

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