Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μόναυλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόναυλος

Sense

  1. a player on the single flute

Examples

  • "καὶ οὐχ ὡσ ὁ παρ’ ὑμῖν τοῖσ Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι πολὺσ ὁ μόναυλοσ ἀλγηδόνα μᾶλλον τοῖσ ἀκούουσι παρέχων ἤ τινα τέρψιν μουσικήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 75 1:2)
  • ̓ ’ἴδε ἀπέχεισ, καλὲ Οὐλπιανέ, καὶ τὸν τῆσ φώτιγγοσ μνημονεύοντα ὅτι δὲ ὁ μόναυλοσ ἦν ὁ νῦν καλούμενοσ καλαμαύλησ σαφῶσ παρίστησιν Ἡδύλοσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιγράμμασιν οὑτωσὶ λέγων τοῦτο Θέων ὁ μόναυλοσ ὑπ’ ἠρίον ὁ γλυκὺσ οἰκεῖ αὐλητήσ, μίμων ἡ ̓ν θυμέλῃσι Χάρισ, τυφλὸσ ὑπαὶ γήρωσ εἶχεν καὶ Σκίρπαλον υἱόν, νήπιον ὅντ’ ἐκάλει Σκίρπαλον Εὐπαλάμου, ἀείδων αὐτοῦ τὰ γενέθλια· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 78 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a player on the single flute

Related

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

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