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μουσουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μουσουργός μουσουργόν

Structure: μουσουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. cultivating music, a singing girl

Examples

  • λέγεται καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐπιστεῖλαι Θεοδώρῳ Πρωτέου ἀδελφῷ πέμψον μοι τὴν μουσουργὸν δέκα τάλαντα λαβών, εἰ μὴ ἐρᾷσ αὐτῆσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:39)
  • οἱ δὲ Μῆδοι ὅσον χρόνον σχολὴν πρὸ δείπνου ἦγεν ὁ Κυαξάρησ ᾖσαν πρὸσ αὐτόν, οἱ μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ καθ’ ἑαυτούσ, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι ὑπὸ Κύρου ἐγκέλευστοι, δῶρα ἄγοντεσ, ὁ μέν τισ οἰνοχόον καλόν, ὁ δ’ ὀψοποιὸν ἀγαθόν, ὁ δ’ ἀρτοποιόν, ὁ δὲ μουσουργόν, ὁ δ’ ἐκπώματα, ὁ δ’ ἐσθῆτα καλήν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 46:1)

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

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