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κατ-αυλέω ,
A.charm by flute-playing, τινος Pl.Lg.790e, cf. R.411a; τινα Alciphr.2.1: metaph., σε . . -ήσω φόβῳ I will flute to you on a ghastly flute, E.HF871 (troch.):—Pass., of persons, μεθύων καὶ καταυλούμενος drinking wine to the strains of the flute, Pl.R.561c; κ. πρὸς χελωνίδος ψόφον to be played to on the flute with lyre accompaniment, Posidon.10 J., cf. Call.Fr.10.3 P., Phld.Mus.p.49 K.
2. c. gen. loci, make a place sound with flute-playing, Thphr.Fr.87:— Pass., resound with flute-playing, “νῆσος κατηυλεῖτο” Plu.Ant.56.
II. in Pass., [τὸν μονόχορδον κανόνα] παρέχειν ταῖς αἰσθήσεσι . . καταυλούμενον subdued by a flute accompaniment, Ptol.Harm.2.12: metaph., to be piped down, ridiculed, “γελώμενοι καὶ -ούμενοι” Anon. ap. Suid., cf. Porph.Chr.34.
III. c. acc. rei, play on the flute, “τὰ μητρῷα” Duris 16 J.:—Pass., to have played to one as an accompaniment on the flute, -“ούμενοι πρὸς τῶν ἑπομένων τὰ μητρῷα μέλη” D.H.2.19.
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 (6):
    • Euripides, Heracles, 871
    • Plato, Laws, 790e
    • Plato, Republic, 561c
    • Plato, Republic, 411a
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 56
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.19
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