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μιξολύδιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: mixolydios

Principal Part: μιξολύδιος μιξολύδιον

Structure: μιξολυδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. half-Lydian

Examples

  • καὶ ἡ Μιξολύδιος δὲ παθητικὴ τίς ἐστι, τραγῳδίαις ἁρμόζουσα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 161)
  • 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)

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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