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

  • "καίτοι φαρμάκων δυνάμεωσ ὁ ἰατρικώτατοσ ἄριστοσ κριτὴσ καὶ μελῶν ἀρετῆσ ὁ φιλομουσότατοσ, οὐκοῦν καὶ ἀρετῆσ ὄψων ὁ φιλοψότατοσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 10:15)

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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