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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

  • καὶ στοιχεῖα καὶ πυρρίχη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 2:1)
  • τρεῖσ δ’ εἰσὶ τῆσ σκηνικῆσ ποιήσεωσ ὀρχήσεισ, τραγική, κωμική, σατυρική, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τῆσ λυρικῆσ ποιήσεωσ τρεῖσ, πυρρίχη, γυμνοπαιδική, ὑπορχηματική. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 2:7)
  • καὶ ἐστὶν ὁμοία ἡ μὲν πυρρίχη τῇ σατυρικῇ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 2:8)
  • ἀμφότεραι γὰρ διὰ τάχουσ, πολεμικὴ δὲ δοκεῖ εἶναι ἡ πυρρίχη · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 3:1)
  • κρίνειν δὲ τὸν πολέμαρχον καὶ ἆθλον διδόναι τῷ νικῶντι κρέασ, ἡ δὲ πυρρίχη παρὰ μὲν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ Ἕλλησιν οὐκ ἔτι παραμένει, καὶ ἐκλιπούσησ δὲ αὐτῆσ συμβέβηκε τοὺσ πολέμουσ καταλυθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 29 1:3)

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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