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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

  • αὐλητικῶσ δεῖ καρκινοῦν τοὺσ δακτύλουσ οἶνόν τε μικρὸν ἐγχέαι καὶ μὴ πολὺν ἔπειτ’ ἀφήσεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 4 2:12)
  • "ὅπου γὰρ ἀψύχοισ σώμασι καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ μονίμοισ οὐκ ἔστι χρήσασθαι παρ’ ὃ πέφυκε βιαζόμενον, οὐδὲ κινῆσαι σφαιρικῶσ κύλινδρον ἢ κυβικῶσ ἢ λύραν αὐλητικῶσ ἢ σάλπιγγα κιθαριστικῶσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 2111)

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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