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.
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.
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