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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

  • εἶτα βαδίζειν ἐν ταῖσιν ὁδοῖσ εὐτάκτωσ ἐσ κιθαριστοῦ τοὺσ κωμήτασ γυμνοὺσ ἁθρόουσ, κεἰ κριμνώδη κατανείφοι. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme3)
  • οὐκ ἄκαιρον δ’ εἶναι νομίζω ἔτι καὶ αὐτόσ, ἐπειδήπερ ἐμνήσθην τοῦ κιθαριστοῦ Στρατονίκου, λέξαι τι περὶ τῆσ εὐστοχίασ αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀποκρίσεων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 41 1:1)
  • ἐνταῦθα γὰρ οἱ ξένοι ἐοίκασιν ἀποθνῄσκειν, τῶν δ’ ἀστῶν οὐδείσ Ζήθου δὲ τοῦ κιθαριστοῦ διεξιόντοσ περὶ μουσικῆσ, μόνῳ δὲ οὐκ ἔφη προσήκειν περὶ μουσικῆσ λαλεῖν, ’ ὅσ γε, ’ ἔφη, τὸ ἀμουσότατον τῶν ὀνομάτων εἵλου, εἰ σεαυτὸν ἀντ’ Ἀμφίονοσ Ζῆθον καλεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 43 4:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ αὕτωσ Μιλήσιοι Ἀρχελάου τοῦ κιθαριστοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 34 1:2)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐστὶν ἔργον ἀνθρώπου ψυχῆσ ἐνέργεια κατὰ λόγον ἢ μὴ ἄνευ λόγου, τὸ δ’ αὐτό φαμεν ἔργον εἶναι τῷ γένει τοῦδε καὶ τοῦδε σπουδαίου, ὥσπερ κιθαριστοῦ καὶ σπουδαίου κιθαριστοῦ, καὶ ἁπλῶσ δὴ τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ πάντων, προστιθεμένησ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν ἀρετὴν ὑπεροχῆσ πρὸσ τὸ ἔργον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 67:3)

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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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