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κιθαρῳδικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαρῳδικός κιθαρῳδική κιθαρῳδικόν

Structure: κιθαρῳδικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kiqarw|do/s

Sense

  1. of or for 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

  • μὴ πρίν γ’ <ἂν> ἀκούσῃσ χἀτέραν στάσιν μελῶν ἐκ τῶν κιθαρῳδικῶν νόμων εἰργασμένην. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric9)
  • "καὶ γὰρ τὸν Τέρπανδρον ἔφη κιθαρῳδικῶν ποιητὴν ὄντα νόμων, κατὰ νόμον ἕκαστον τοῖσ ἔπεσι τοῖσ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖσ Ὁμήρου μέλη περιτιθέντα ᾄδειν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσιν ἀποφῆναι δὲ τοῦτον λέγει ὀνόματα πρῶτον τοῖσ κιθαρῳδικοῖσ νόμοισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3 1:13)
  • τινὰσ δὲ τῶν νόμων τῶν κιθαρῳδικῶν τῶν ὑπὸ Τερπάνδρου πεποιημένων Φιλάμμωνά φασι τὸν ἀρχαῖον τὸν Δελφὸν συστήσασθαι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 5 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for harp-playing

Related

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

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