ῥαψῳδός
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ῥαψῳδός
ῥαψῳδοῦ
Structure:
ῥαψῳδ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- rhapsodist
- 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.
- Λυσανίασ δ’ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Ιἀμβοποιῶν Μνασίωνα τὸν ῥαψῳδὸν λέγει ἐν ταῖσ δείξεσι τῶν Σιμωνίδου τινὰσ ἰάμβων ὑποκρίνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 12 2:2)
- τὸν γὰρ ῥαψῳδὸν ἑρμηνέα δεῖ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῆσ διανοίασ γίγνεσθαι τοῖσ ἀκούουσι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 4:2)
- καίτοι οὐκ ἂν πρέποι γε ἐπιλήσμονα εἶναι ῥαψῳδὸν ἄνδρα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 58:4)
- ῥαψῳδὸν δέ, καλῶσ Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν ἤ τι τῶν Ἡσιοδείων διατιθέντα, τάχ’ ἂν ἡμεῖσ οἱ γέροντεσ ἥδιστα ἀκούσαντεσ νικᾶν ἂν φαῖμεν πάμπολυ. (Plato, Laws, book 2 38:5)
- " Αὐτοὺσ δὲ τούτουσ τοὺσ Καθαρμοὺσ [ἐν] Ὀλυμπίασι ῥαψῳδῆσαι λέγεται Κλεομένη τὸν ῥαψῳδόν, ὡσ καὶ Φαβωρῖνοσ ἐν Ἀπομνημονεύμασι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. b'. EMPEDOKLHS 13:3)