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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

  • οὐχ ὁρᾷσ ὅτι κιθαριστῶν μὲν καὶ χορευτῶν καὶ ὀρχηστῶν οὐδὲ εἷσ ἐπιχειρεῖ ἄρχειν μὴ ἐπιστάμενοσ, οὐδὲ παλαιστῶν οὐδὲ παγκρατιαστῶν; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 22:3)
  • καίτοι ἄνευ μὲν αὐλητῶν καὶ κιθαριστῶν καὶ σκυτοτόμων καὶ παιδοτριβῶν καὶ ῥητόρων καὶ ἰατρῶν οὐκ ἀδύνατον ἀνθρώποισ βιοῦν πάνυ καλῶσ καὶ νομίμωσ, οἶμαι δ̓ ἐγὼ καὶ δίχα γεωργῶν καὶ οἰκοδόμων· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 8:3)
  • αὐτοῦ δ’ ἡγοῦνται τοῦ στρατηγοῦ ῥαβδοῦχοι φοινικοῦσ χιτῶνασ ἐνδεδυκότεσ, καὶ χορὸσ κιθαριστῶν τε καὶ τιτυριστῶν, ἐσ μίμημα Τυρρηνικῆσ πομπῆσ, περιεζωσμένοι τε καὶ στεφάνην χρυσῆν ἐπικείμενοι· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 12:4)

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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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