Citations:περισπωμένη

Ancient Greek citations of περισπωμένῃ (perispōménēi), περισπωμένων (perispōménōn), and περισπωμένην (perispōménēn)

• 2nd C. BC, Dionysius Thrax, Τέχνη Γραμματική, § iii: «Περὶ Τόνου»:

  τόνος ἐστὶν ἀπήχησις φωνῆς ἐναρμονίου, ἡ κατὰ ἀνάτασιν ἐν τῇ ὀξείᾳ, ἡ κατὰ ὁμαλισμὸν ἐν τῇ βαρείᾳ, ἡ κατὰ περίκλασιν ἐν τῇ περισπωμένῃ.

  Tone is the resonance of a voice endowed with harmony. It is heightened in the acute, balanced in the grave, and broken in the circumflex. ― translation from: Thomas Davidson, The Grammar of Dionysios Thrax (1874), § iii: “On Tone”, page 4

• ibidem, § xiv: «Περὶ Συζυγίας»:

  περισπωμένων δὲ ῥημάτων συζυγίαι εἰσὶ τρεῖς,

  Of Circumflexed Verbs there are three Conjugations, ― translation from: ibidem, § xvii: “On Circumflexed Verbs”, page 12

• ibidem:

  ἡ μὲν πρώτη ἐκφέρεται ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης τῶν περισπωμένων, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ τιθῶ γέγονε τίθημι·

  the First is characterized from the first of the Circumflexed Conjugations, as from τιθῶ comes τίθημι; ― translation from: ibidem, § xviii: “On Verbs in μι”, page 13

• ante AD 50, Philo (author), Leopold Cohn (editor), Περὶ τῆς κατὰ Μωσέα κοσμοποιίας in Philonis Alexandrini Libellus de Opificio Mundi (1889), § 41 (page 45, lines 11–14):

  Συμβέβηκε μέντοι καὶ τὰς τῆς φωνῆς μεταβολὰς ἁπάσας ἑπτὰ εἶναι, τὴν ὀξεῖαν, τὴν βαρεῖαν, τὴν περισπωμένην, καὶ τέταρτον δασὺν φθόγγον καὶ ψιλὸν πέμπτον καὶ μακρὸν ἕκτον καὶ βραχὺν ἕβδομον.

  It also happens that all the changes of the voice amount to seven; the acute, the grave, the contracted, in the fourth place the aspirated sound, the fifth is the tone, the sixth the long, the seventh the short sound. ― translation from: Charles Duke Yonge, The works of Philo Judæus, the contemporary of Josephus I (1890), “A Treatise on the Account of the Creation of the World, as Given by Moses”, § xli, page 36