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κιθαριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαριστής κιθαριστοῦ

Structure: κιθαριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kiqari/zw

Sense

  1. a player on the cithara

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

  • ἐκ γάρ τοι Μουσέων καὶ ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἄνδρεσ ἀοιδοὶ ἐάσιν ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ κιθαρισταί, ἐκ δὲ Διὸσ βασιλῆεσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 10:10)
  • κᾆτα τὸν κιθαριστὴν ὀργισθέντ’ ἀπάγειν κελεύειν, ὡσ ἁρμονίαν ὁ παῖσ οὗτοσ οὐ δύναται μαθεῖν ἢν μὴ Δωροδοκιστί. (Aristotle, Choral, antistrophe3)
  • εἰσ τὸ συμπόσιον μήτε ὀρχηστὴν μήτε κιθαριστὴν αὐτοὺσ ἄγειν ἄρτι μανθάνοντα ἐξέστω, ἤν τισ ἐθέλῃ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:6)
  • εἶτα βαδίζειν ἐν ταῖσιν ὁδοῖσ εὐτάκτωσ ἐσ κιθαριστοῦ τοὺσ κωμήτασ γυμνοὺσ ἁθρόουσ, κεἰ κριμνώδη κατανείφοι. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme3)
  • πόθεν δὲ καὶ εἰδέναι δύναται ἅπερ εἶπεν Στρατόνικοσ ὁ κιθαριστὴσ εἰσ Πρόπιν τὸν Ῥόδιον κιθαρῳδόν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 401)
  • ὁ κιθαριστὴσ ἀναπαύεσθαι μέλλων ἐκέλευεν ἀεὶ τὸν παῖδα προσφέρειν αὑτῷ πιεῖν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 422)
  • Φιλόχοροσ δ’ ἐν γ’ Ἀτθίδοσ Λύσανδροσ, φησίν, ὁ Σικυώνιοσ κιθαριστὴσ πρῶτοσ μετέστησε τὴν ψιλοκιθαριστικήν, μακροὺσ τοὺσ τόνουσ ἐντείνασ καὶ τὴν φωνὴν εὐόγκον ποιήσασ, καὶ τὴν ἔναυλον κιθάρισιν πρῶτοι οἱ περὶ Ἐπίγονον ἐχρήσαντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:28)
  • περὶ δὲ τοῦ τήνελλα Ἐρατοσθένησ φησὶν ὅτι ὅτε ὁ αὐλητὴσ ἢ ὁ κιθαριστὴσ μὴ παρῆν, ὁ ἔξαρχοσ αὐτὸ μεταλαβὼν ἔλεγεν ἔξω τοῦ μέλουσ, ὁ δὲ τῶν κωμαστῶν χορὸσ ἐπέβαλλε τὸ καλλίνικε, καὶ οὕτω συνειρόμενον γέγονε τὸ `τήνελλα καλλίνικε. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 695)
  • καὶ ὁ κιθαριστὴσ δὲ καὶ ὁ παιδοτρίβησ ὡσαύτωσ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 94:3)

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

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