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ῥαψῳδός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαψῳδός ῥαψῳδοῦ

Structure: ῥαψῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(a/ptw, w)|dh/

Sense

  1. rhapsodist
  2. One who performs the poetry of a poet for an audience; not a writer of poetry

Declension

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

  • οὐκ ἀπελείποντο δὲ ἡμῶν τῶν συμποσίων οὐδὲ ῥαψῳδοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 121)
  • ὅτι δ’ ἐκαλοῦντο οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ καὶ Ὁμηρισταὶ Ἀριστοκλῆσ εἴρηκεν ἐν τῷ περὶ Χορῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 12 1:1)
  • ἐκεῖνο δ’, ἔφη ὁ Ἀντισθένησ, λέληθέ σε, ὅτι καὶ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ πάντεσ ἐπίστανται ταῦτα τὰ ἔπη; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 7:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σοφοὶ μέν πού ἐστε ὑμεῖσ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ καὶ ὑποκριταὶ καὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ᾄδετε τὰ ποιήματα, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ τἀληθῆ λέγω, οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ ἰδιώτην ἄνθρωπον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 16:6)
  • οὐκοῦν ὑμεῖσ αὖ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ τὰ τῶν ποιητῶν ἑρμηνεύετε; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 31:4)

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