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φίλαυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλαυλος φίλαυλον

Structure: φιλαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of the flute

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἔχων ἔτι πολλὰ λέγειν περὶ μουσικῆσ αὐλῶν ἀκούων βόμβου καταπαύσω τὸ πολυλογεῖν, τὰ ἐκ Φιλαύλου Φιλεταίρου ἐπειπών· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 341)

Synonyms

  1. fond of 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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