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ὀρχηστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχηστής ὀρχηστοῦ

Structure: ὀρχηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o)rxe/omai

Sense

  1. a dancer
  2. a dancing-master

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

  • ταῦτα οἱ Ἰνδοὶ καὶ ὁ βασιλεῦσ αὐτῶν ἀκούοντεσ ἐγέλων, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, καὶ οὐδ’ ἀντεπεξάγειν ἢ παρατάττεσθαι ἠξίουν, ἀλλ’ εἴπερ ἄρα, τὰσ γυναῖκασ ἐπαφήσειν αὐτοῖσ, εἰ πλησίον γένοιντο, σφίσι δὲ καὶ νικᾶν αἰσχρὸν ἐδόκει καὶ φονεύειν γύναια μεμηνότα καὶ θηλυμίτρην ἄρχοντα καὶ μεθύον σμικρὸν γερόντιον καὶ ἡμίτραγον στρατιώτην ἄλλον καὶ γυμνήτασ ὀρχηστάσ, πάντασ γελοίουσ. (Lucian, (no name) 3:1)
  • ἃ δὲ Ὅμηροσ ὑπὲρ Ἀριάδνησ ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι πεποίηκεν καὶ τοῦ χοροῦ ὃν αὐτῇ Δαίδαλοσ ἤσκησεν ὡσ ἀνεγνωκότι σοι παρίημι, καὶ τοὺσ ὀρχηστὰσ δὲ τοὺσ δύο οὓσ ἐκεῖ ὁ ποιητὴσ κυβιστητῆρασ καλεῖ, ἡγουμένουσ τοῦ χοροῦ, καὶ πάλιν ἃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἀσπίδι λέγει· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 13:1)
  • Λεσβῶναξ γοῦν ὁ Μυτιληναῖοσ, ἀνὴρ καλὸσ καὶ ἀγαθόσ, χειρισόφουσ τοὺσ ὀρχηστὰσ ἀπεκάλει καὶ ᾔει ἐπὶ τὴν θέαν αὐτῶν ὡσ βελτίων ἀναστρέψων ἀπὸ τοῦ θεάτρου. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 69:4)
  • ἢν δέ σε Καρκίνοσ ἐλθὼν ἀντιβολῇ μετὰ τῶν παίδων χορεῦσαι, μήθ’ ὑπάκουε μήτ’ ἔλθῃσ συνέριθοσ αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλὰ νόμιζε πάντασ ὄρτυγασ οἰκογενεῖσ γυλιαύχενασ ὀρχηστὰσ ναννοφυεῖσ σφυράδων ἀποκνίσματα μηχανοδίφασ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, strophe 13)
  • ζηλοτυποῦντεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ λογίουσ πλούσιοι καὶ πλουσίουσ ἔνδοξοι καὶ δικολόγοι σοφιστάσ, καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δία κωμῳδοὺσ εὐημεροῦντασ ἐν θεάτροισ καὶ ὀρχηστὰσ καὶ θεράποντασ ἐν αὐλαῖσ βασιλέων ἐλεύθεροι καὶ εὐπατρίδαι κατατεθαμβημένοι καὶ μακαρίζοντεσ, οὐ μετρίωσ λυποῦσιν αὑτοὺσ καὶ ταράττουσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dancer

  2. a dancing-master

Related

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

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