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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

  • Ποσειδώνιοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀπαμεύσ, ὕστερον δὲ Ῥόδιοσ χρηματίσασ, ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν Ιἕρακά φησι τὸν Ἀντιοχέα πρότερον λυσιῳδοῖσ ὑπαυλοῦντα ὕστερον γενέσθαι κόλακα δεινὸν Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἑβδόμου βασιλέωσ τοῦ καὶ Εὐεργέτου ἐπικληθέντοσ καὶ τὰ μέγιστα δυνηθέντα παρ’ αὐτῷ, καθάπερ καὶ παρὰ τῷ Φιλομήτορι, ὕστερον ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ διαφθαρῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 61 1:1)

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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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