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καλλιβόας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλιβόας καλλιβόου

Etym.: boa/w

Sense

  1. beautiful-sounding

Examples

  • ὁ καλλιβόασ τάχ’ ὑμῖν αὐλὸσ οὐκ ἀναρσίαν ἀχῶν καναχὰν ἐπάνεισιν, ἀλλὰ θείασ ἀντίλυρον μούσασ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • τί δ’ ἐπειδὰν λέγῃ μή μοι καταπαύετ’, ἐπεί περ ἤρξατο τερπνοτάτων μελέων ὁ καλλιβόασ πολύχορδοσ αὐλόσ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful-sounding

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

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