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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 γὰρ ἤρξατο ᾄδειν οὐ πάνυ αἴσιόν τινα ᾠδὴν τοῖσ πλέουσιν, ὡσ ὁ Ποσειδῶν συνήγαγε τὰσ νεφέλασ καὶ ἐτάραξε τὸν πόντον ὥσπερ τορύνην τινὰ ἐμβαλὼν τὴν τρίαιναν καὶ πάσασ τὰσ θυέλλασ ὠρόθυνε καὶ ἄλλα πολλά, κυκῶν τὴν θάλατταν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπῶν, χειμὼν ἄφνω καὶ γνόφοσ ἐμπεσὼν ὀλίγου δεῖν περιέτρεψεν ἡμῖν τὴν ναῦν ὅτε περ καὶ ναυτιάσασ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀπήμεσε τῶν ῥαψῳδιῶν τὰσ πολλὰσ αὐτῇ Σκύλλῃ καὶ Χαρύβδει καὶ Κύκλωπι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 7:15)
  • καὶ μὴν ἀξιόπιστόν σοι μάρτυρα τὸν Ὅμηρον παρέξομαι ἄνω καὶ κάτω τῶν ῥαψῳδιῶν χρυσῆν με τὴν Ἀφροδίτην εἶναι λέγοντα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 10:4)
  • Βαβαῖ, ὦ Ὅμηρε, οἱᾶ́ σοι τῶν ῥαψῳδιῶν τὰ κεφάλαια χαμαὶ ἔρριπται ἄγνωστα καὶ ἄμορφα, κόνισ πάντα καὶ λῆροσ πολύσ, ἀμενηνὰ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ κάρηνα οὗτοσ δέ, ὦ Αἰακέ, τίσ ἐστι; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)

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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