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πυρρίχιος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: pyrrichios

Principal Part: πυρρίχιος

Sense

  1. of or belonging to the pyrrhic dance
  2. a pyrrhic

Examples

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν βραχυσύλλαβος ἡγεμών τε καὶ πυρρίχιος καλεῖται, καὶ οὔτε μεγαλοπρεπής ἐστιν οὔτε σεμνός: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 179)
  • τί οὖν ἐκώλυε καλὴν ἁρμονίαν εἶναι λέξεως, ἐν ᾗ μήτε πυρρίχιός ἐστι ποὺς μήτε ἰαμβικὸς μήτε ἀμφίβραχυς μήτε τῶν χορείων ἢ τροχαίων μηδείς· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1852)
  • ἓξ πόδες ἐν χώραισι τόσαις μετροῦσιν ἰάμβον, σπονδεῖος, χόριος, καὶ δάκτυλος ἠδ ἀνάπαιστος, πυρρίχιος καὶ ἰάμβος: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 151)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to the pyrrhic dance

  2. a pyrrhic

Similar forms

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

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