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ἄλῠρος

aluros

without the lyre, unaccompanied by it

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ἄλῠρος · alyros — LSJ

without the lyre, unaccompanied by it, wild, sad

without the lyre, unaccompanied by it, ὕμνοι ἄ., i.e. wild dirges (accompanied by flute, not lyre), E. Alc. 447; ἄ. ἔλεγος Hel. 185; μέλος Poet. ap. Arist. Rh. 1408a7; Ἄϊδος μοῖρʼ ἄ., of death, S. OC 1223 (lyr.); ἄ. φθόγγοι sad talk, Alex. 162.6 (anap.); ἄ. μαθήματα ποιητῶν Pl. Lg. 810b.

In the wild

ἄλυρον · alyron Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἄλυρον · alyron Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἄλυρον · alyron Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 136)
ἀλύροις · alyrois Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 61)
ἄλυρον · alyron Euripides, Phoenissae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 623)
ἄλυρα · alyra Plato, Laws 810

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