ᾠδεῖον

English (LSJ)

τό, the Odeum, a public building at Athens built by Pericles for musical performances (< ᾠδαί), having an orchestra, And. 1.38, IG2². 1688.3, Eup. 18D.; and other apparatus of a theatre, Paus. 1.8.6, 1.14.1; used as a law-court, Ar. V. 1109 (troch., cf. Sch.), D. 59.52; for philos. disputations, Alex. 25.2, DL. 7.184, Plu. 2.605a; for soldiers' quarters, X. HG 2.4.9, 24; as a place for distributing corn, D. 34.37; it seems to have been circular, with a peaked roof, whence the line of Cratin. 71, ὁ σχινοκέφαλος Ζεὺς ὁδὶ προσέρχεται ὁ Περικλέης, τᾠδεῖον ἐπὶ τοῦ κρανίου ἔχων, cf. Plu. Per. 13, Thphr. Char. 3.4; rebuilt, after having been burnt, by Ariobarzanes, App. Mith. 38. of other music-halls, as that at Athens, built by Herodes Atticus, Paus. 7.20.6; at Corinth, Id. 2.3.6; at Patrae, Id. 7.20.6; at Patara, Epigr.Gr. 412; at Samos, GDI 5702.41 (iv BC); at Rome, built by Hadrian, DC. 69.4; θεατροειδὲς ᾠ. CIG 4614 (Palestine).

German (Pape)

[Seite 1407] τό, Ort zum Singen, ein öffentliches Gebäude in Athen, das eigtl. zu musikalischen Aufführungen bestimmt war, aber auch zu Volksversammlungen und als Gerichtshof diente; Ar. Vesp. 1109; Xen. Hell. 2, 4,6. 15; Dem. 59, 52; Andoc. 1, 38.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ᾠδεῖον: тж. Ὠιδεῖον τό ᾠδή Одеон (здание, построенное при Перикле в Афинах для музыкальных состязаний, но впосл. служившее и для других общественных целей) Arph., Dem., Plut.

Middle Liddell

ᾠδεῖον, ου, τό,
the Odeum, a public building, erected by Pericles for musical performances, also used as a lawcourt, Ar., Plut. [from ᾠδή]