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单词 homerid
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Homeridn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmərɪd/, U.S. /ˈhoʊməˌrɪd/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element; partly modelled on a German lexical item, and partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: proper name Homer , -id suffix3.
Etymology: < the name of Homer (see Homeric adj.) + -id suffix3, after German Homeride (usually in plural Homeriden ) member of a guild of poets in Chios who claimed descent from Homer (1756 or earlier), Homeric poet or rhapsodist (1797 or earlier) and its etymon ancient Greek Ὁμηρίδης (usually in plural Ὁμηρίδαι ) reciter of epic poems, rhapsodist, imitator or admirer of Homer, in Hellenistic Greek also (in plural) guild of poets in Chios who claimed descent from Homer < Ὅμηρος Homer (see Homeric adj.) + -ίδης -id suffix3. Compare post-classical Latin Homeridae, plural (1534 or earlier), French Homéride (1810).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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