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αὐλητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐλητικός

Structure: αὐλητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)le/w

Sense

  1. of or for the flute, flute-playing

Examples

  • ταχὺ γὰρ διῆλθε λόγοσ εἰσ τοὺσ παῖδασ ὡσ εὖ ποιῶν ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδησ βδελύττοιτο τὴν αὐλητικὴν καὶ χλευάζοι τοὺσ μανθάνοντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 2 6:2)
  • Δοῦρισ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐριπίδου καὶ Σοφοκλέουσ Ἀλκιβιάδην φησὶ μαθεῖν τὴν αὐλητικὴν οὐ παρὰ τοῦ τυχόντοσ, ἀλλὰ Προνόμου τοῦ μεγίστην ἐσχηκότοσ δόξαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 84 1:5)
  • καὶ τῶν Πυθαγορικῶν δὲ πολλοὶ τὴν αὐλητικὴν ἤσκησαν, ὡσ Εὐφράνωρ τε καὶ Ἀρχύτασ Φιλόλαόσ τε ἄλλοι τε οὐκ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 84 1:7)
  • περὶ μὲν γὰρ αὐλῶν ὃ μέν τισ ἔφη τὸν Μελανιππίδην καλῶσ ἐν τῷ Μαρσύᾳ διασύροντα τὴν αὐλητικὴν εἰρηκέναι περὶ τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 72)
  • "μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ ἐγκωμιάζων τὴν αὐλητικὴν λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. of or for the flute

Related

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

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