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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

  • οἱ δὲ πίθηκοι ἰδόντεσ καὶ ἐκλαθόμενοι τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ, τοῦθ’ ὅπερ ἦσαν, πίθηκοι ἐγένοντο ἀντὶ πυρριχιστῶν καὶ συνέτριβον τὰ προσωπεῖα καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα κατερρήγνυον καὶ ἐμάχοντο περὶ τῆσ ὀπώρασ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, τὸ δὲ σύνταγμα τῆσ πυρρίχησ διελέλυτο καὶ κατεγελᾶτο ὑπὸ τοῦ θεάτρου. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 36:6)
  • τακτέον δὲ ἐπὶ τῆσ πυρρίχησ τὰ κάλλιστα μέλη καὶ τοὺσ ὀρθίουσ ῥυθμούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 29 3:2)
  • πυρρίχησ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section65)

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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