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ὑπόρχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόρχημα ὑπόρχηματος

Structure: ὑπορχηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from u(porxe/omai

Sense

  1. a hyporcheme or choral hymn to Apollo

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ Ξενοδάμου ἀπομνημονεύεται ᾆσμα, ὃ ἐδτι φανερῶσ ὑπόρχημα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 9 4:2)
  • ἦν δὲ ἡ Πυλάδου ὄρχησισ ὀγκώδησ παθητική τε καὶ πολυπρόσωποσ, ἡ δὲ Βαθύλλειοσ ἱλαρωτέρα καὶ γὰρ ὑπόρχημά τι τοῦτον διατίθεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 37 1:2)
  • "αἰδοῖ δὲ τῶν ἐγκωμίων ἐκείνων, ἃ Σωκράτησ περὶ ὀρχήσεωσ διῆλθε, δέχομαι τὴν Βαθύλλειον αὐτόθεν πέζαν τοῦ κόρδακοσ ἁπτομένην, Ἠχοῦσ ἤ τινοσ Πανὸσ ἢ Σατύρου σὺν Ἔρωτι κωμάζοντοσ ὑπόρχημά τι διατιθεμένην. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 10:7)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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