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λιγύφωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιγύφωνος λιγύφωνον

Structure: λιγυφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fwnh/

Sense

  1. clear-voiced, loud-voiced, screaming

Examples

  • Ἄτλασ δ’ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχει κρατερῆσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ πείρασιν ἐν γαίησ, πρόπαρ Εσπερίδων λιγυφώνων, ἑστηὼσ κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:6)
  • ἢ καὶ γένοσ τι πέφηνεν ἀνθρώπων ταῖσ ῥισὶν εὔμουσον, ὥσπερ τοὺσ κύκνουσ φασὶ τοῖσ πτεροῖσ, ἔπειτα τῶν λιγυφώνων τρόπον ὀρνέων τέρπουσιν ἀλλήλουσ ἔν τε ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ καὶ παρὰ τὰ ξυμπόσια, μηδὲν δεόμενοι λύρασ μηδὲ αὐλῶν ‐ ἀρχαῖα δὴ ταῦτα καὶ σκληρᾶσ ἔτι καὶ ἀγροίκου τινὸσ μουσικῆσ ὄργανα ‐ νῦν δὲ τρόποσ ἄλλοσ ἀνθεῖ, βαρβίτων κρείττων καὶ προσηνέστεροσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 55:1)

Synonyms

  1. clear-voiced

Related

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

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