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θεσπιῳδός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεσπιῳδός θεσπιῳδόν

Structure: θεσπιῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. singing in prophetic strain, prophetic
  2. caused by prophecy

Examples

  • ὧν δ’ οὕνεκ’ ἦλθον τούσδε βασιλείουσ δόμουσ, τὴν θεσπιῳδὸν Θεονόην χρῄζων ἰδεῖν, σὺ προξένησον, ὡσ τύχω μαντευμάτων ὅπῃ νεὼσ στείλαιμ’ ἂν οὔριον πτερὸν ἐσ γῆν ἐναλίαν Κύπρον, οὗ μ’ ἐθέσπισεν οἰκεῖν Ἀπόλλων, ὄνομα νησιωτικὸν Σαλαμῖνα θέμενον τῆσ ἐκεῖ χάριν πάτρασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:40)
  • κακῶν γὰρ διαὶ πολυεπεῖσ τέχναι θεσπιῳδὸν φόβον φέρουσιν μαθεῖν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 58)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν τοῦ μύθου τε καὶ τοῦ λόγου, τῇδέ πῃ συνᾴδοντα, τρίτην ἐπὶ δισσοῖσ μάρτυσι τὴν θεσπιῳδὸν Σίβυλλαν παρακαλεῖ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:4)

Synonyms

  1. singing in prophetic strain

Related

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

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