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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

  • 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

Related

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

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