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Παιάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Παιάν Παιᾶνος

Structure: Παιαν (Stem)

Sense

  1. Paean or Paeon, Paeon
  2. a physician, healer, a saviour, deliverer
  3. a paean, a choral song, a hymn or chant
  4. a song of triumph, a war-song
  5. any solemn song or chant
  6. paean-singers
  7. a paeon

Declension

Third 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

  • παιᾶνασ δ’ ἐπὶ σοῖσ μελά‐ θροισ κύκνοσ ὣσ γέρων ἀοι‐ δὸσ πολιᾶν ἐκ γενύων κελαδήσω· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • σὺ δὲ κιθάρᾳ κλάζεισ παιᾶνασ μέλπων. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:7)
  • χοροὶ δ’ εἰσὶν γ’, ὁ μὲν πρόσω παίδων, ὁ δ’ ἐκ δεξιοῦ γερόντων, ὁ δ’ ἐξ ἀριστεροῦ ἀνδρῶν,2 γυμνῶν ὀρχουμένων καὶ ᾀδόντων Θαλητᾶ καὶ Ἀλκμᾶνοσ ᾄσματα καὶ τοὺσ Διονυσοδότου τοῦ Λάκωνοσ παιᾶνασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 22 2:1)
  • "ἔχει γὰρ τὸ ἰὴ παιὰν ἐπίφθεγμα, ὥσ φησιν Γόργων ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῶν ἐν Ῥόδῳ θυσιῶν, ἐπ’ Ἀντιγόνῳ δὲ καὶ Δημητρίῳ φησὶν Φιλόχοροσ Ἀθηναίουσ ᾄδειν παιᾶνασ τοὺσ πεποιημένουσ ὑπὸ Ἑρμοκλέουσ τοῦ Κυζικηνοῦ, ἐφαμίλλων γενομένων τῶν παιᾶνασ ποιησάντων πάντων καὶ τοῦ Ἑρμοκλέουσ προκριθέντοσ, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ αὐτὸσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἐν τῇ Ἀπολογίᾳ τῆσ ἀσεβείασ, εἰ μὴ κατέψευσται ὁ λόγοσ, φησίν οὐ γὰρ ἄν ποτε Ἑρμείᾳ θύειν ὡσ ἀθανάτῳ προαιρούμενοσ ὡσ θνητῷ μνῆμα κατεσκεύαζον καὶ ἀθανατίζειν τὴν φύσιν βουλόμενοσ ἐπιταφίοισ ἂν τιμαῖσ ἐκόσμησα τὸ σῶμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 5113)

Synonyms

  1. Paean or Paeon

  2. a physician

  3. a paean

  4. paean-singers

  5. a paeon

Related

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

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