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πυρρίχιος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

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

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

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