Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μιξολύδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιξολύδιος μιξολύδιον

Structure: μιξολυδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. half-Lydian

Examples

  • καὶ τὸν Μιξολύδιον δὲ τόνον ὅλον προσεξευρῆσθαι λέγεται, καὶ τὸν τῆσ ὀρθίου μελῳδίασ τρόπον τὸν κατὰ τοὺσ ὀρθίουσ πρόσ τε τῷ ὀρθίῳ καὶ τὸν σημαντὸν τροχαῖον. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 28 1:1)
  • μιξολύδιον γάρ πωσ εἶναι καὶ μιξοφρύγιον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 4:4)
  • "πορρωτέρω δ’ οὐκέτι ταύτῃ προελθεῖν οἱο͂́ν τε ὥστ’ οὐδὲ ζητεῖν παρὰ ταύτησ τὸ διαγνῶναι δύνασθαι, πότερον οἰκείωσ εἴληφεν ὁ ποιητὴσ ὅμοἱο͂ν εἰπεῖν ἐν μούσοισ τὸν Ὑποδώριον τόνον ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἢ τὸν Μιξολύδιόν τε καὶ Δώριον ἐπὶ τὴν ἔκβασιν ἢ τὸν Ὑποφρύγιόν τε καὶ Φρύγιον ἐπὶ τὴν μέσην. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 332)

Synonyms

  1. half-Lydian

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

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