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πύρριχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύρριχος πύρριχη πύρριχον

Structure: πυρριχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: doric for purro/s

Sense

  1. red

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. red

Related

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

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