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ῥήκτης

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Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c
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Transliteration A: rhḗktēs Transliteration B: rhēktēs Transliteration C: riktis Beta Code: r(h/kths

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ, (ῥήγνυμι)

   A breaker, render; of an earthquake that breaks the earth into fissures, Arist.Mu.396a5, Lyd.Ost.54.

German (Pape)

[Seite 840] ὁ, der Zerreißer, Zerbrecher, Spalter; dah. ein Erdbeben, das die Erde spaltet und einen Erdfall verursacht, Arist. de mund. 4, 28.