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ῥαψῳδός
ῥαψῳδός ῥαψ-ῳδός, οῦ, ὁ, ῥάπτω, ᾠδή properly one who stitches or strings songs together; esp. a person who recited Epic poems, a rhapsodist, applied to Homer, Plat.; but ῥαψῳδοί commonly meant a class of persons who got their living by reciting the poems of Homer, Hdt., Plat.; v. ῥαψῳδία II. Soph. calls the Sphinx ῥαψῳδὸς κύων, because she proposed her riddle publicly, as the rhapsodists did their lays.

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rhapsode, reciter of epic poems

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Headword:
ῥαψῳδός
Headword (normalized):
ῥαψῳδός
Headword (normalized/stripped):
ραψωδος
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ῥαψῳδός ῥαψ-ῳδός, οῦ, ὁ, ῥάπτω, ᾠδή properly one who stitches or strings songs together; esp. a person who recited Epic poems, a rhapsodist, applied to Homer, Plat.; but ῥαψῳδοί commonly meant a class of persons who got their living by reciting the poems of Homer, Hdt., Plat.; v. ῥαψῳδία II. Soph. calls the Sphinx ῥαψῳδὸς κύων, because she proposed her riddle publicly, as the rhapsodists did their lays.
IDX:
29011
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n29045
Key:
r(ayw|do/s

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