κιθαρῳδός
Ὦ τύμβος, ὦ νυμφεῖον, ὦ κατασκαφὴς οἴκησις αἰείφρουρος, οἷ πορεύομαι πρὸς τοὺς ἐμαυτῆς, ὧν ἀριθμὸν ἐν νεκροῖς πλεῖστον δέδεκται Φερσέφασσ' ὀλωλότων. → Tomb, bridal chamber, eternal prison in the caverned rock, whither I go to find mine own, those many who have perished, and whom Persephone hath received among the dead. | Tomb, bridal-chamber, deep-dug eternal prison where I go to find my own, whom in the greatest numbers destruction has seized and Persephone has welcomed among the dead.
English (LSJ)
ὁ, (κιθάρα, ἀοιδός)
A one who plays and sings to the cithara, Hdt.1.23, IG12.547, Pherecr.6.1, Phld.Mus.p.28K., etc.: as fem., κ. γυνή Alciphr.3.33. II a fish, found in the Red Sea, with body striped like the strings of a lyre, Ael.NA11.23.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1437] ὁ, = κιθαραοιδός, der die Cither spielt u. dazu singt, unterschieden von κιθαριστής, vgl. Ammon., Plat. Conv. 179 d; Diphil. bei Ath. VI, 247 c, auch ἡ κιθαρῳδὸς γυνή, Alciphr. 3, 33. – Ein Fisch, Ael. H. A. 11, 23.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κῐθᾰρῳδός: ὁ, (κιθάρα, ἀοιδὸς) ὁ κρούων τὴν κιθάραν καὶ ᾄδων συγχρόνως, Ἡρόδ. 1. 23, Πλάτ., κτλ.· πρβλ. κιθαριστής, κιθαραοιδός. ΙΙ. εἶδος ἰχθύος ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ εὑρισκόμενος, Αἰλ. π. Ζ. 11. 23.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
1 joueur de cithare;
2 sorte de poisson.
Étymologie: κιθαραοιδός.
English (Strong)
from κιθάρα and a derivative of the same as ᾠδή; a lyre-singer(-player), i.e. harpist: harper.
English (Thayer)
κιθαρωδου, ὁ (κιθάρα (which see), and ᾠδός, contracted from ἀοιδός, a singer), a harper, one who plays on the harp and accompanies it with his voice: Herodotus, Plato, others), Diphilus (300 B.C.>) in Athen. 6, p. 247d.; Plutarch, mor. 166a.; Aelian v. h. 4,2; superlative (extended form) κιθαραοιδοτατος, Aristophanes vesp. 1278. Varro de r. r. 2,1, 3 non omnes, qui habent citharam, sunt citharoedi.)
