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λυσιῳδός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυσιῳδός λυσιῳδοῦ

Structure: λυσιῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who played women's characters in male attire

Declension

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

  • ἄνδρεσ δ’ ἐγένοντο γνώριμοι Μάγνητεσ Ἡγησίασ τε ὁ ῥήτωρ, ὃσ ἦρξε μάλιστα τοῦ Ἀσιανοῦ λεγομένου ζήλου παραφθείρασ τὸ καθεστὼσ ἔθοσ τὸ Ἀττικόν, καὶ Σῖμοσ ὁ μελοποιὸσ παραφθείρασ καὶ αὐτὸσ τὴν τῶν προτέρων μελοποιῶν ἀγωγὴν καὶ τὴν σιμῳδίαν εἰσαγαγών καθάπερ ἔτι μᾶλλον λυσιῳδοὶ καὶ μαγῳδοί, καὶ Κλεόμαχοσ ὁ πύκτησ, ὃσ εἰσ ἔρωτα ἐμπεσὼν κιναίδου τινὸσ καὶ παιδίσκησ ὑπὸ τῷ κιναίδῳ τρεφομένησ ἀπεμιμήσατο τὴν ἀγωγὴν τῶν παρὰ τοῖσ κιναίδοισ διαλέκτων καὶ τῆσ ἠθοποιίασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 75:1)

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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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