单词 | homerid |
释义 | Homeridn. 1. A Homeric poet or rhapsodist, spec. one of the Homeridae, an Ancient Greek guild of poets in Chios who claimed to be descended from Homer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation of epic poetry > one who Homerist1599 rhapsodist1656 rhapsode1712 Homerid1828 1828 J. C. Hare & C. Thirlwall tr. B. G. Niebuhr Hist. Rome I. 268 Such a house was that of the Homerids [Ger. Homeriden] in Chios; whose descent from the poet was only an inference drawn from their name. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. 177 The Homerids were still conspicuous in the days of Akusilaus, Pindar..and Plato. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 508 The older songs were composed in the Aeolic dialect and transferred to the Ionic dialect after the Homerids had emigrated from Aeolic Smyrna to Ionic Chios. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. R. Curtius European Lit. & Lat. Middle Ages xiii. 229 For our purposes it is immaterial whether the Catalogue of the Ships in an interpolation by a Homerid or not. 1994 Guardian 17 Nov. a15/1 Davie was interested in fieldwork among the epic singers of the south Slav lands, the Homerids of modern Europe. 2. A Homeric scholar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > study of Homeric poems > one who Homerist1695 Homerid1865 Homerologist1890 1865 Times 21 Jan. 7/3 I..have since that period not only consistently maintained the doctrine of your illustrious English Homerid, but have consistently acted upon it in the teaching of the Greek classes in this University. 1866 J. S. Blackie Homer & Iliad I. 141 The greatest modern Homerid, Wolf. 1925 Classical Jrnl. 20 294 It is an ‘inorganic line’, it appears, added to remove the atrocity, offensive to the finer sensibilities of later Homerids, of ‘stripping the slain’. 2007 S. J. Harrison tr. G. B. Conte Poetry of Pathos ii. 39 Virgil did not limit himself to the showcasing, glossing, and variation of memorable Homeric phrases, as had been the practice of the schools and commentators and to a certain extent even of a modern Homerid like Apollonius. Derivatives Homeˈridian adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [adjective] > recitation of epic poetry > of or relating to one who rhapsodicala1822 Homeridian1833 1833 T. Keightley in tr. Ovid Fasti IV. 146/1 Compare Claudian de Rap. Pros. and the Homeridian hymn to Demeter. 1891 E. A. Freeman Hist. Sicily I. 479 Homer, or at least the Homeridian poet, undoubtedly has Σῐκελός and Σῑκανίη. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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