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παρῳδός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρῳδός παρῳδόν

Structure: παρῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh/

Sense

  1. singing indirectly, obscurely hinting

Examples

  • "Κλέαρχοσ, ὦ λῷστε, ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ Παιδείασ οὑτωσί φησιν ’ λείπεταί ὁ συρβηνέων χορόσ, ὧν ἕκαστοσ τὸ δοκοῦν ἑαυτῷ κατᾴδει,1 προσέχων οὐδὲν τῷ προκαθημένῳ καὶ διδάσκοντι τὸν χορὸν ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ πολὺ τούτων ἀτακτότερόσ ἐστιν ὁ θεατήσ, καὶ κατὰ τὸν παρῳδὸν Μάτρωνα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 54 1:2)

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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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