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δι_θύραμβος [υ^], ὁ, metapl. acc. sg.
A.“διθύραμβα” Pi.Fr.86:—dithyramb, Archil.77, Epich.132, Hdt.1.23, Pi.O.13.19, Pherecr.145.11, Pl.Lg.700b, Arist.Pol.1342b7, Pr.918b18, etc.; “μιξοβόας δ.” A.Fr. 355: metaph. of bombastic language, “τοσουτονὶ δ. ᾁσας” Pl.Hp.Ma. 292c; “οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φθέγγομαι” Id.Phdr.238d.
II. a name of Dionysus, E.Ba.526 (lyr.), Philod.Scarph.1:—hence Δι^θυραμβογενής , AP9.524. (Pi. is said to have written it λυ_θίραμβος (Fr.85）—as if from λῦθι ῥάμμα, the cry of Bacchus when sewn up in his father's thigh.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 526
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.23
    • Plato, Laws, 700b
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 238d
    • Plato, Greater Hippias, 292c
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