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αὐλητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐλητής αὐλητοῦ

Structure: αὐλητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: au)le/w

Sense

  1. a flute-player, flautist.

Declension

First 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

  • "καὶ γὰρ χειμοθνήσ εἰμι, καὶ χλιανθεὶσ ἥδιον ἂν ^ ἀκούοιμι τῶν χειρεσόφων τούτων, τοῦ τε αὐλητοῦ καὶ τῆσ βαρβιτῳδοῦ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 14:5)
  • ’ Τέχνων ὁ παλαιὸσ αὐλητὴσ Χάρμου τοῦ αὐλητοῦ τελευτήσαντοσ ἦν δὲ φίλιχθυσ ἀποπυρίδασ ἐπὶ τοῦ μνήματοσ ἐνήγιζεν αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 32 2:1)
  • ἀγωνιῶ δὲ καὶ δέδοικα παντελῶσ, μὴ ποτ’ ἐπιβὰσ κήρυκι τὸν πόδ’ ἀναπαρῶ αὐλεῖν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσιν αὐλητοῦ κακοῦ μέλλοντοσ ὁ Στρατόνικοσ ’ εὐφήμει, μέχρι σπείσαντεσ εὐξώμεσθα φησί, ’ τοῖσ θεοῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 41 6:2)
  • ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ Ἀντίοχοσ τοὺσ Σωστράτου τοῦ αὐλητοῦ υἱεῖσ σωματοφύλακασ ἐπεποίητο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 34 3:1)
  • τοσοῦτον χρόνον φυλαχθεὶσ κατελύθη ὑπὸ τοῦ τελευταίου Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ τὸν Γαβινιακὸν συστησαμένου πόλεμον, οὐκ ἀνδρὸσ γενομένου ἀλλ’ αὐλητοῦ καὶ μάγου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 37 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a flute-player

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