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ὀρχησμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχησμός ὀρχησμοῦ

Structure: ὀρχησμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = o)rxhqmo/s, Aesch.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • 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)

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

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