ἐπῳδός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἐπῳδόν, ([[ἐπᾴδω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[singing to]] or [[over]], using [[song]]s or [[charm]]s to [[heal]] [[wound]]s, ἐπῳδοὶ μῦθοι ''Pl.Lg.''903b.<br><span class="bld">b</span> Subst., [[enchanter]], ἐ. καὶ γόης ''E.Hipp.'' 1038 (but γόης ἐπῳδός ''Ba.''234): c. gen., a [[charm]] for or against, ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀημάτων ''A.Ag.''1418; ἐ. τῶν τοιούτων [[one to charm away]] such [[fear]]s, ''Pl.Phd.''78a.<br><span class="bld">c</span> c. dat., [[assisting]], [[profitable]], ἐ. γίγνεσθαι νέοις πρὸς ἀρετήν ''Id.Lg.''671a; δυσπραξίᾳ ληφθεὶς ἐ. ἐστι τῷ πειρωμένῳ Trag.Adesp.364.4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Pass., [[sung to music]], φωναί Plu.2.622d; [[fit for singing]], ποιητικὴν ἐ. παρέχειν ''S.E.M.''6.16.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[sung after]] or [[said after]], μορφῆς ἐπῳδόν [[called after]] this [[form]], ''E. Hec.''1272.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in Metre, as [[substantive]],<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[ἐπῳδός]], ἡ, Sch.metr. ''Pi.O.''4 (ὁ, ''Gal.UP''17.3, dub. in ''D.H.Comp.''19), [[epode]], [[part of a lyric ode sung after the strophe and antistrophe]], ib.''26'', Gal. [[l.c.]], Sch.metr. Pi.l.c., etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> ἐπῳδός, ὁ, [[verse]] or [[passage]] [[returning]] at [[interval]]s, in Alcaics and Sapphics, ''D.H.Comp.''19; [[chorus]], [[burden]], [[refrain]], ''Ph. 1.312'': metaph., ὁ κοινὸς ἁπάσης ἀδολεσχίας ἐπῳδός = the '[[old]] [[story]]', Plu.2.507e.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[shorter verse of a couplet]], as in the metres invented by [[Archilochus]], ''Hermog.Inv.''4.4: hence of short poems written in such metres, ἐπῳδοί Heph.Poëm.''7.2''; ἐπῳδά Plu.2.1141a.