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φρύγιος [υ^], α, ον, also ος, ον Luc.Harm.1: (Φρύξ):—
A.Phrygian, “δι᾽ αἴας . . Φρυγίας” A.Supp.548 (lyr.), etc.; δείματα Φ. the terrors of the Phrygian goddess, E.El.457 (lyr.).
2. Φ. νόμοι, μέλεα, Phrygian music, esp. of music played on the flute, said to have been invented by Marsyas, E.Or.1426 (lyr.), Tr.545 (lyr.); “Φ. αὐλοί” Id.Ba.127 (lyr.): “πᾶσα βακχεία . . μάλιστα . . ἐστὶν ἐν τοῖς αὐλοῖς . . : ὁ διθύραμβος ὁμολογουμένως δοκεῖ εἶναι Φ.” Arist.Pol.1342b7; “τῆς Φρυγίον [ἁρμονίας] τὸ ἔνθεον” Luc. l.c.; Φ. διὰ πασῶν εἶδος, τόνος, τρόπος, Phrygian scale, Cleonid.Harm.9,12, Alyp.Diat.7,al.
II. Φ. λίθος, an aluminous kind of pumice-stone, used by dyers, Dsc.5.123.
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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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 548
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 127
    • Euripides, Electra, 457
    • Euripides, Orestes, 1426
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 545
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