Scaife ATLAS

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.

ShortDef

rhapsode, reciter of epic poems

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Headword:

ῥαψῳδός

Headword (normalized):

ῥαψῳδός

Headword (normalized/stripped):

ραψωδος

IDX:

29011

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n29045

Key:

r(ayw|do/s

Data

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