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ῥαψῳδικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαψῳδικός ῥαψῳδική ῥαψῳδικόν

Structure: ῥαψῳδικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from r(ayw|do/s

Sense

  1. of or for a rhapsodist, the rhapsodist's art

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ταῦτα εἴτε ὀρθῶσ λέγει Ὅμηροσ εἴτε μή, πότερον ἰατρικῆσ ἐστι διαγνῶναι καλῶσ ἢ ῥαψῳδικῆσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 50:3)
  • ταῦτα πότερον φῶμεν ἁλιευτικῆσ εἶναι τέχνησ μᾶλλον κρῖναι ἢ ῥαψῳδικῆσ, ἅττα λέγει καὶ εἴτε καλῶσ εἴτε μή; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 51:1)
  • ἴθι δὴ καὶ σὺ ἐμοί, ὥσπερ ἐγὼ σοὶ ἐξέλεξα καὶ ἐξ Ὀδυσσείασ καὶ ἐξ Ἰλιάδοσ ὁποῖα τοῦ μάντεώσ ἐστι καὶ ὁποῖα τοῦ ἰατροῦ καὶ ὁποῖα τοῦ ἁλιέωσ, οὕτω καὶ σὺ ἐμοὶ ἔκλεξον, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἐμπειρότεροσ εἶ ἐμοῦ τῶν Ὁμήρου, ὁποῖα τοῦ ῥαψῳδοῦ ἐστιν, ὦ Ιὤν, καὶ τῆσ τέχνησ τῆσ ῥαψῳδικῆσ, ἃ τῷ ῥαψῳδῷ προσήκει καὶ σκοπεῖσθαι καὶ διακρίνειν παρὰ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἀνθρώπουσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 57:5)

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

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