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ἐπῳδή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπῳδή

Structure: ἐπῳδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a song sung to or over: an enchantment, charm, spell, a charm for or against

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

  • γέρων, τούτων ἕνεκα, ἃσ ᾠδὰσ καλοῦμεν, ὄντωσ μὲν ἐπῳδαὶ ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ αὗται νῦν γεγονέναι, πρὸσ τὴν τοιαύτην ἣν λέγομεν συμφωνίαν ἐσπουδασμέναι, διὰ δὲ τὸ σπουδὴν μὴ δύνασθαι φέρειν τὰσ τῶν νέων ψυχάσ, παιδιαί τε καὶ ᾠδαὶ καλεῖσθαι καὶ πράττεσθαι, καθάπερ τοῖσ κάμνουσίν τε καὶ ἀσθενῶσ ἴσχουσιν τὰ σώματα ἐν ἡδέσι τισὶν σιτίοισ καὶ πώμασι τὴν χρηστὴν πειρῶνται τροφὴν προσφέρειν οἷσ μέλει τούτων, τὴν δὲ τῶν πονηρῶν ἐν ἀηδέσιν, ἵνα τὴν μὲν ἀσπάζωνται, τὴν δὲ μισεῖν ὀρθῶσ ἐθίζωνται. (Plato, Laws, book 2 45:1)
  • οὔτε φάρμακα οὔτε καύσεισ οὔτε τομαὶ οὐδ’ αὖ ἐπῳδαὶ αὐτὸν οὐδὲ περίαπτα οὐδὲ ἄλλο τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν ὀνήσει; (Plato, Republic, book 4 133:1)

Synonyms

  1. a song sung to or over

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

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