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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

  • πολίτῃ μὲν ἐμῷ τε καὶ σῷ, Πεισιστράτου δὲ ὑεῖ τοῦ ἐκ Φιλαϊδῶν, Ἱππάρχῳ, ὃσ τῶν Πεισιστράτου παίδων ἦν πρεσβύτατοσ καὶ σοφώτατοσ, ὃσ ἄλλα τε πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ ἔργα σοφίασ ἀπεδείξατο, καὶ τὰ Ὁμήρου ἔπη πρῶτοσ ἐκόμισεν εἰσ τὴν γῆν ταυτηνί, καὶ ἠνάγκασε τοὺσ ῥαψῳδοὺσ Παναθηναίοισ ἐξ ὑπολήψεωσ ἐφεξῆσ αὐτὰ διιέναι, ὥσπερ νῦν ἔτι οἵδε ποιοῦσιν, καὶ ἐπ’ Ἀνακρέοντα τὸν Τήιον πεντηκόντορον στείλασ ἐκόμισεν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν, Σιμωνίδην δὲ τὸν Κεῖον ἀεὶ περὶ αὑτὸν εἶχεν, μεγάλοισ μισθοῖσ καὶ δώροισ πείθων· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 20:5)
  • τοὺσ γάρ τοι ῥαψῳδοὺσ οἶδα τὰ μὲν ἔπη ἀκριβοῦντασ, αὐτοὺσ δὲ πάνυ ἠλιθίουσ ὄντασ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 11:15)
  • καὶ μὴν πολλάκισ γε ἐζήλωσα ὑμᾶσ τοὺσ ῥαψῳδούσ, ὦ Ιὤν, τῆσ τέχνησ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 3:5)
  • οὐ πολὺ γελοιότερον οἰκήσουσιν οὗτοι, οὓσ λέγω τοὺσ τῶν ὑμετέρων παίδων διδασκάλουσ, οἱ παιδοτρίβαι καὶ κιθαρισταὶ καὶ γραμματισταί, προσλαβόντεσ τούσ τε ῥαψῳδοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ὑποκριτάσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:4)
  • ἔπεμψε δὲ καὶ ῥαψῳδοὺσ τοὺσ κρατίστουσ, ὅπωσ ἐν τῇ πανηγύρει τὰ ποιήματα αὐτοῦ προφερόμενοι ποιήσωσιν ἔνδοξον τὸν Διονύσιον· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 106 22:2)

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