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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

  • γέλωτοσ οὖν πολλοῦ καταρραγέντοσ ἔμενεν ὁ φιλόσοφοσ καὶ τὴν λυσιῳδὸν ἐπαινῶν οὐκ ἐπαύσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 47 3:3)
  • Ἀριστόξενοσ δέ φησι τὸν μὲν ἀνδρεῖα καὶ γυναικεῖα πρόσωπα ὑποκρινόμενον μαγῳδὸν καλεῖσθαι, τὸν δὲ γυναικεῖα ἀνδρείοισ λυσιῳδὸν τὰ αὐτὰ δὲ μέλη ᾄδουσιν, καὶ τἄλλα πάντα δ’ ἐστὶν ὅμοια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 13 1:3)

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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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