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ῥαψῳδία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαψῳδία

Structure: ῥαψῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: r(ayw|do/s

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

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ἐπρίω πολλάκισ, ἀναγνώτω σοί τισ αὐτοῦ λαβὼν τὴν δευτέραν τῆσ Ἰλιάδοσ ῥαψῳδίαν, ἧσ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα μὴ ἐξετάζειν οὐδὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν πρὸσ σέ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 7:1)
  • "φαγήσια, οἱ δὲ φαγησιπόσια προσαγορεύουσι τὴν ἑορτήν ἐξέλιπε δὲ αὕτη, καθάπερ ἡ τῶν ῥαψῳδῶν ἣν ἦγον καὶ τὴν τῶν Διονυσίων ἐν ᾗ παριόντεσ ἑκάστῳ τῶν θεῶν οἱο͂ν τιμὴν ἐπετέλουν τὴν ῥαψῳδίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 710)
  • προσελθὼν δὲ διδασκαλείῳ ῥαψῳδίαν Ἰλιάδοσ ᾔτει· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 31)
  • προσελθὼν δὲ διδασκαλείῳ ῥαψῳδίαν Ἰλιάδοσ ᾔτει· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 3 1:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἰσ τὴν τραγικὴν καὶ ῥαψῳδίαν ὀψὲ παρῆλθεν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. recitation of epic poetry

  2. epic composition

Related

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

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