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πυρριχιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρριχιστής πυρριχιστοῦ

Structure: πυρριχιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dancer of the, the chorus of Pyrrhic dancers

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)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ Εὐκλείδου ἄρχοντοσ κωμῳδοῖσ χορηγῶν Κηφισοδώρῳ ἐνίκων, καὶ ἀνήλωσα σὺν τῇ τῆσ σκευῆσ ἀναθέσει ἑκκαίδεκα μνᾶσ, καὶ Παναθηναίοισ τοῖσ μικροῖσ ἐχορήγουν πυρριχισταῖσ ἀγενείοισ, καὶ ἀνήλωσα ἑπτὰ μνᾶσ. (Lysias, Speeches, 7:2)

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

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