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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

  • νὴ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἐχρῆν γε πρὸσ τούτοισι κεἰ τὴν πυρρίχην τισ ἔμαθε τὴν Κινησίου. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅδε φύλαξ γὰρ τῶν ἐκεῖθεν ἄγγελοσ ἐσθεῖ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ δεῦρο πυρρίχην βλέπων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:16)
  • Ἀριστόξενοσ δέ φησι τὴν πυρρίχην ἀπὸ Πυρρίχου Λάκωνοσ τὸ γένοσ τὴν προσηγορίαν λαβεῖν Λακωνικὸν δ’ εἶναι μέχρι καὶ νῦν ὄνομα τὸν Πύρριχον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 291)
  • Ἀριστόξενοσ δέ φησιν ὡσ οἱ παλαιοὶ γυμναζόμενοι πρῶτον ἐν τῇ γυμνοπαιδικῇ εἰσ τὴν πυρρίχην ἐχώρουν πρὸ τοῦ εἰσιέναι εἰσ τὸ θέατρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 30 1:1)
  • τὸν ἐνόπλιον ὄρχησιν καὶ σύντονον πυρρίχην ἔλεγον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown194)

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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