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κιθαρῳδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαρῳδία

Structure: κιθαρῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kiqarwdo/s

Sense

  1. a singing to 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

  • τὰσ δὲ κιθαρῳδίασ οἱ περὶ τὸν ἐξ Ἰταλίασ Οἰνώναν, ὃσ καὶ Κύκλωπα εἰσήγαγε τερετίζοντα καὶ ναυαγὸν Ὀδυσσέα σολοικίζοντα, ὁ αὐτόσ φησι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 35 3:1)
  • "Ἀριστόξενοσ δέ φησιν ὥσπερ τῶν ἑξαμέτρων τινὲσ ἐπὶ τὸ γελοῖον παρῳδὰσ εὑρ͂ον, οὕτωσ καὶ τῆσ κιθαρῳδίασ πρῶτοσ Οἰνώνασ, ὃν ἐζήλωσαν Πολύευκτόσ τε ὁ Ἀχαιὸσ καὶ Διοκλῆσ ὁ Κυναιθεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:34)
  • οἱ δὲ τῆσ κιθαρῳδίασ νόμοι πρότερον πολλῷ χρόνῳ τῶν αὐλῳδικῶν κατεστάθησαν ἐπὶ Τερπάνδρου· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 4 1:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐξῆν τὸ παλαιὸν οὕτω ποιεῖσθαι τὰσ κιθαρῳδίασ ὡσ νῦν οὐδὲ μεταφέρειν τὰσ ἁρμονίασ καὶ τοὺσ ῥυθμούσ ἐν γὰρ τοῖσ νόμοισ ἑκάστῳ διετήρουν τὴν οἰκείαν τάσιν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 6 1:1)
  • καθυπέρτεραι δὲ αἱ μοῦσαι γενόμεναι καὶ τῶν ὀμμάτων αὐτὸν καὶ τῆσ κιθαρῳδίασ ἐστέρησαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 3 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a singing to the cithara

Related

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

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