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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

  • 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)

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