Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μολπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μολπή

Structure: μολπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: me/lpw

Sense

  1. the song and dance, a chant or song accompanied by measured movements, play, sport, game at ball
  2. singing, song

Declension

First 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

  • αἴρω χεῖρ’ ἀπαντήσασ νεκροῖσ Αἵδου τε μολπὰσ ἐκχέω δακρυρρόουσ, φίλουσ προσαυδῶν, ὧν λελειμμένοσ τάλασ ἔρημα κλαίω· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:38)
  • ἰὼ δμωαί, δυσθρηνήτοισ ὡσ θρήνοισ ἔγκειμαι, τᾶσ οὐκ εὐμούσου μολπᾶσ βοὰν ἀλύροισ ἐλέγοισ, αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ, κηδείοισ οἴκτοισιν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:1)
  • "καὶ πρότεροσ ἔτι τούτου ὁ Στησίχοροσ, μάλα τοι μάλιστα παιγμοσύνασ τε φιλεῖ μολπὰσ τ’ Ἀπόλλων, κάδεα δὲ στοναχάσ τ’ Αἴδασ ἔλαχε. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2113)
  • ταῖσι δὴ δαίμων κλυτᾶσ ἶσα θοοῖσ δονέων ποσὶ πολύπλοκα μετίει μέτρα μολπᾶσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 27 4:1)
  • ἀκρίδα Δημοκρίτου μελεσίπτερον ἅδε θανοῦσαν ἄργιλοσ δολιχὰν ἀμφὶ κέλευθον ἔχει, ἇσ καί, ὅτ’ ἰθύσειε πανέσπερον ὕμνον ἀείδειν, πᾶν μέλαθρον μολπᾶσ ἰάχ’ ὑπ’ εὐκελάδου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1941)

Synonyms

  1. singing

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

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