Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόμουσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόμουσος φιλόμουσον

Structure: φιλομους (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mou=sa

Sense

  1. loving the Muses, loving music and the arts

Examples

  • φιλόμουσον εἶν’ αὐτὸν πάνυ ἀκούσματ’ εἰσ τρυφήν τε παιδεύεσθ’ ἀεί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 2 3:1)
  • εἰκὸσ μὲν οὖν ἦν καὶ τὸ φιλόμουσον ἀγαπᾶν τοῦ θηρίου τὸν θεόν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 36 4:2)
  • οὐ μὲν δὴ πρέπει γε φιλόμουσον ἄνδρα τῶν τοιούτων ἀνήκοον εἶναι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 220:3)
  • "οἶμαι δέ σε πεφροντικέναι φιλόμουσον οὕτω καὶ πολύμουσον ὄντα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. loving the Muses

Related

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

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