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Μοῦσα , ης, ἡ, Aeol. Μοῖσα Sapph.84, IG42(1).130.16, etc.; Dor. Μῶσα Alcm. 1, etc.; Lacon. Μῶἁ (for Μῶσα) Ar.Lys.1298, cf. An. Ox.1.277:—Muse,
A.“Ὀλυμπιάδες Μ., Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο θυγατέρες” Il.2.491, cf. Hes.Th.25, etc.; nine in number, first in Od.24.60; named in Hes.Th.75 sqq.
II. μοῦσα, as Appellat., music, song, “μ. στυγερά” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “εὔφαμος” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “καναχὰν . . θείας ἀντίλυρον μούσας” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); “Αἰακῷ μοῖσαν φέρειν” Pi.N.3.28; τίς ἥδε μοῦσα; what strain is this ? E.Ion757; “ἄλυρος μ.” Id.Ph.1028 (lyr.); “διὰ μούσας ᾖξα” Id.Alc.962 (lyr.): in Prose, “ᾁδειν ἀδόκιμον μ.” Pl.Lg. 829d: in pl., μοῦσαι Σφιγγός, of the Sphinx's riddle, E.Ph.50; esp. liberal arts, accomplishments, “τὰς μούσας ἀφανίζων” Ar.Nu.972; “ἀπαίδευτον τῶν περὶ τὰς νυμφικὰς μ.” Pl.Lg.775b: also in sg., “τῆς ἀληθινῆς μ. ἠμεληκέναι” Id.R.548b; κοινωνεῖν μούσης ib.411c.
2. αὕτη ἡ Σωκράτους μ. that was Socrates's way, Gal.UP1.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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