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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

  • ἅπερ ὁ Διογένησ ἐρασθείσ τινοσ λυσιῳδοῦ γυναικὸσ ἐχαρίσατο αὐτῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 47 2:3)
  • ἄκαιρον δ’ εἶναι εἰπόντοσ νεύσασ εἰσαγαγεῖν ἐκέλευσε τὰ ἀκούσματα, ἐν οἷσ καὶ ἡ λυσιῳδὸσ εἰσῆλθεν ἐστεφανωμένη τὸν τῆσ Ἀρετῆσ στέφανον, ἐνδῦσα καὶ τὴν πορφυρᾶν ἐσθῆτα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 47 3:2)
  • γέλωτοσ οὖν πολλοῦ καταρραγέντοσ ἔμενεν ὁ φιλόσοφοσ καὶ τὴν λυσιῳδὸν ἐπαινῶν οὐκ ἐπαύσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 47 3:3)
  • 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)
  • "οὗτοσ δ’ ἐστὶν ὁ αὐτὸσ τῷ λυσιῳδῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 13 1:2)
  • οὗτοι γὰρ οἱ τότε παρ’ αὐτῷ δυνάμενοι μέγιστον ἦσαν, Ῥώσκιοσ ὁ κωμῳδὸσ καὶ Σῶριξ ὁ ἀρχιμῖμοσ καὶ Μητρόβιοσ ὁ λυσιῳδόσ, οὗ καίπερ ἐξώρου γενομένου διετέλει μέχρι παντὸσ ἐρᾶν οὐκ ἀρνούμενοσ. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 36 1:2)

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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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