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μολπή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: molpē

Principal Part: μολπή

Structure: μολπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: μέλπω

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

  • ἔνθεν ἔχων σύριγγα κατ ἤθεα καλὰ νομήων Πανὶ καὶ Ἑρμάωνι φίλην ἀνεβάλλετο μολπήν: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 157)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ὅμηρος τὰ ἥδιστα καὶ κάλλιστα καταλέγων, ὕπνον καὶ φιλότητα καὶ μολπὴν καὶ ὄρχησιν , μόνην ταύτην ἀμύμονα ὠνόμασεν, προσμαρτυρήσας νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ ἡδὺ τῇ μολπῇ, ἅπερ ἀμφότερα τῇ ὀρχηστικῇ] πρόσεστιν, καὶ ᾠδὴ γλυκερὰ καὶ ὀρχησμὸς ^ ἀμύμων, ὃν σὺ νῦν μωμᾶσθαι ἐπινοεῖς. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 23:3)
  • αἳ τότ ἴσαν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἀγαλλόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ, ἀμβροσίῃ μολπῇ: (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 9:4)
  • μολπαὶ δ ηὔξοντ ἐραταί, χρυσέας ἀρνὸς ἐπίλογοι, Θυέστου: (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • Δημοδόκου γοῦν ᾅδοντος κοῦροι πρωθῆβαι ὠρχοῦντο καὶ ἐν τῇ Ὁπλοποιίᾳ δὲ παιδὸς κιθαρίζοντος ἄλλοι ἐναντίοι μολπῇ τε ὀρχηθμῷ τε ἔσκαιρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 27 1:1)
  • τούτων οὖν ἃ μὲν καθάπαξ περιγραπτέον, οἷς δὲ συμμέτρως χρηστέον ὥσπερ ἀναθήμασί τισι μικρὸν προσαποβλέψαντας, καθάπερ Ὅμηρος εἴρηκεν μολπὴ τ ὀρχηστύς τε: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 8 3:2)
  • βωμὸς δ ἄνθεσιν ἀν τὸ μέσον πάντῃ πεπύκασται, μολπὴ δ ἀμφὶς ἔχει δώματα καὶ θαλίη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 7 2:2)

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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