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κιθαριστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαριστικός κιθαριστική κιθαριστικόν

Structure: κιθαριστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kiqaristh/s

Sense

  1. skilled in harp-playing

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Πτολεμαίου δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ περὶ κιθαριστικῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν διαλεγομένου φιλονικότερον, ’ ἕτερόν ἐστιν εἶπεν, ̔ ὦ βασιλεῦ, σκῆπτρον, ἕτερον δὲ πλῆκτρον, ὥσ φησι Καπίτων ὁ ἐποποιὸσ ἐν δ# τῶν πρὸσ Φιλόπαππον ὑπομνημάτων, παρακληθεὶσ δ’ ἀκοῦσαί ποτε κιθαρῳδοῦ μετὰ τὴν ἀκρόασιν ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 42 3:1)
  • "οὐ μόνη δὲ κιθάρα Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐλητικῆσ καὶ κιθαριστικῆσ εὑρετὴσ ὁ θεόσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 14 1:6)
  • οὐδὲ μὴν ἡ κιθαριστική. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 99:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἰ ἐτύγχανεσ ἱππικὸσ ὢν ἅμα καὶ κιθαριστικόσ, ἔγνωσ ἂν ἵππουσ εὖ καὶ κακῶσ ἱππαζομένουσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 63:8)
  • ἡ γὰρ λυροποιικὴ καὶ ἡ κιθαριστικὴ πολὺ διαφέρετον ἀλλήλοιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 202:2)
  • ἔχει τισ ὑμῶν παρασκευὴν οἱάν ὁ κιθαριστικὸσ τὴν λύραν λαβών, ὥστ’ εὐθὺσ ἁψάμενοσ τῶν χορδῶν γνῶναι τὰσ ἀσυμφώνουσ καὶ ἁρμόσασθαι τὸ ὄργανον; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 5:1)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰσ τίνα δὴ κοινωνίαν ὁ δίκαιοσ ἀμείνων κοινωνὸσ τοῦ οἰκοδομικοῦ τε καὶ κιθαριστικοῦ, ὥσπερ ὁ κιθαριστικὸσ τοῦ δικαίου εἰσ κρουμάτων; (Plato, Republic, book 1 124:1)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in harp-playing

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

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