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

  • 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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