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πυρρίχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρρίχη

Structure: πυρριχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the pyrrhic dance, a, war-dance
  2. contortions

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 τὴν ὄψιν ἐδίδαξε μὴ πυρρίχαισ χαίρειν μηδὲ χειρονομίαισ μηδ’ ὀρχήμασι γλαφυροῖσ μηδ’ ἀγάλμασι καὶ γραφαῖσ, ἀλλὰ φόνον καὶ θάνατον ἀνθρώπων καὶ τραύματα καὶ μάχασ θέαμα ποιεῖσθαι πολυτελέστατον. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 2 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. the pyrrhic dance

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

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