οχτάφωνος

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Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)

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Greek Monolingual

και οχτάφωνος, -η, -ο
(για μουσική κλίμακα) αυτός που έχει οκτώ φωνές.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ὀκτα- (βλ. λ. οχτώ) + -φωνος (< φωνή)].