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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

  • εἰ μὲν οὖν πλησίον ἦν ἡ πόλισ καὶ φανερὰ ἰδεῖν ἅπασι, πάλαι ἄν, εὖ ἴσθι, μηδὲν ἐνδοιάσασ αὐτὸσ ᾔειν ἐσ αὐτὴν καὶ ἐπολιτευόμην ἂν ἐκ πολλοῦ, ἐπεὶ δέ, ὡσ ὑμεῖσ φατε, σύ τε καὶ Ἡσίοδοσ ὁ ῥαψῳδόσ, πάνυ πόρρω ἀπῴκισται, ἀνάγκη ζητεῖν ὁδόν τε τὴν ἄγουσαν ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν καὶ ἡγεμόνα τὸν ἄριστον. (Lucian, 51:2)
  • "μεθ’ οὓσ ἐπεδείξατο ῥαψῳδὸσ Ἄλεξισ Ταραντῖνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 549)
  • τοὺσ δ’ Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ Καθαρμοὺσ ἐρραψῴδησεν Ὀλυμπίασι Κλεομένησ ὁ ῥαψῳδόσ, ὥσ φησιν Δικαίαρχοσ ἐν τῷ Ὀλυμπικῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 12 3:1)
  • πῶσ οὐκ, ὅθ’ ἡ ῥαψῳδὸσ ἐνθάδ’ ἦν κύων, ηὔδασ τι τοῖσδ’ ἀστοῖσιν ἐκλυτήριον; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 6:3)
  • τοὺσ δὲ Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ Καθαρμοὺσ ἐρραψῴδησεν Ὀλυμπίασι Κλεομένησ ὁ ῥαψῳδόσ, ὥσ φησιν Δικαίαρχοσ ἐν τῷ Ὀλυμπικῷ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section15)

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