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ἀοιδάν (aoidan)

ἀοιδάν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀοιδή, meaning “song”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of ἀοιδός, “singer, bard”. It is the present active participle vocative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.62: κοὔτί τυ κερτομέω. πόταγʼ ὦγαθέ· τὰν γὰρ ἀοιδὰν

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 94.2: λιγύραν ἀοίδαν, ὄποτα φλόγι

Pindar, Olympian 6.91: ἠϋκόμων σκυτάλα Μοισᾶν, γλυκὺς κρατὴρ ἀγαφθέγκτων ἀοιδᾶν·

All forms of ἀοιδή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.