ἄμουσος
amousos
without song
Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄμουσος, ον, A. without song, of fishes, 74; but usu. without the Muses, i.e. without taste or refinement, rude, Ion 526, V. 1074; ἄ. καὶ ἀφιλόσοφος Sph. 259e; ἄ. ἡδονή, ἁμαρτήματα, gross pleasure, faults, Phdr. 240b, Lg. 863c; ἄ. ἐστι, c. inf., it is incongruous, Th. 159; τῶν Λειβηθρίων ἀμουσότερος, prov. for lowest degree of mental cultivation, 1.79: Sup., γλῶττα -οτάτη 2.28. Adv. -ως Hp.Ma. 292c. II. of persons, unmusical, Sph. 253b, al. 2. of sounds, unmusical, discordant, ἄμουσʼ ὑλακτεῖν Alc. 760; ἀμουσόταται ᾠδαί Ph. 807, etc. Adv. -ως Or. 8.247d.
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