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ῥαψῳδία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: rhapsōidia

Principal Part: ῥαψῳδία

Structure: ῥαψῳδι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ῥαψῳδός

Sense

  1. recitation of epic poetry
  2. epic composition
  3. a portion of an epic poem fit for recitation at one time, a book, a lay, canto

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ῥαψῳδία ῥαψῳδία ῥαψῳδίαι
Genitive ῥαψῳδίας ῥαψῳδίαιν ῥαψῳδιῶν
Dative ῥαψῳδίᾳ ῥαψῳδίαιν ῥαψῳδίαις
Accusative ῥαψῳδίαν ῥαψῳδία ῥαψῳδίας
Vocative ῥαψῳδία ῥαψῳδία ῥαψῳδίαι

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

  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ἤδη ὑπὸ τῆς ἐνδείας οὐ διθυράμβους φθέγγομαι κατὰ τὸν Σωκράτην, ἀλλ ἤδη καὶ ἔπη λιμῶδες γὰρ ὄντως ἡ ῥαψῳδία κατὰ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1003)
  • διὸ καὶ αἱ τέχναι συνέστησαν ἥ τε ῥαψῳδία καὶ ἡ ὑποκριτικὴ καὶ ἄλλαι γε. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 8:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μήν, ὥς γ ἐγὼ οἶμαι, οὐδ ἐν αὐλήσει γε οὐδὲ ἐν κιθαρίσει οὐδὲ ἐν κιθαρῳδίᾳ οὐδὲ ἐν ῥαψῳδίᾳ οὐδεπώποτ εἶδες ἄνδρα ὅστις περὶ μὲν Ὀλύμπου δεινός ἐστιν ἐξηγεῖσθαι ἢ περὶ Θαμύρου ἢ περὶ Ὀρφέως ἢ περὶ Φημίου τοῦ Ἰθακησίου ῥαψῳδοῦ, περὶ δὲ Ιὤνος τοῦ Ἐφεσίου ῥαψῳδοῦ ἀπορεῖ καὶ οὐκ ἔχει συμβαλέσθαι ἅ τε εὖ ῥαψῳδεῖ καὶ ἃ μή. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. recitation of epic poetry

  2. epic composition

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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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