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καλλί-νῑκος

kallinikos

gloriously triumphant

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Where it lives

  • Heracles 8 · 10.22/10k
  • Phoenissae 7 · 7.25/10k
  • Alcibiades 2 3 · 7.03/10k
  • Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
  • Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
  • Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
  • Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

gloriously triumphant, of noble victory, triumphant over

gloriously triumphant, τήνελλα ὦ καλλίνικε χαῖρʼ ἄναξ Ἡράκλεες Archil. 119, cf. IG 12(5).234 (Paros); κῦδος κ. the glory of noble victory, Pi. I. 1.12; χάρμα κ. ib. 5(4).54; καλλίνικος ἅρμασι Id. P. 1.32: c. gen., τῶν ἐχθρῶν triumphant over oneʼs enemies, E. Med. 765; ἐραστῶν Pl. Alc. 2.151c; epith. of Helios, IG 12(2).127 (Mytil.); of kings, as Seleucus II, Plb. 2.71.4, Str. 16.2.4, etc.; of martyrs, Cod.Just. 1.3.35.3 (Zeno).

II adorning, ennobling victory, the glory of victory

adorning or ennobling victory, μέλος, ὕμνος, Pi. P. 5.106, N. 4.16 codd.; ᾠδά, μοῦσα, E. El. 865 (lyr.), Ph. 1728 (lyr.); στέφανος, στέφη, Id. IT 12, Alex. in Gött. Nachr. 1922.10; κ. ἡλαίη Call. Iamb. 1.283; τὸ κ. the glory of victory, Pi. N. 3.18; so καλλίνικος (sc. ὕμνος) Id. O. 9.2; καλλίνικον οἴσεται E. Med. 45; τὸν καλλίνικον μετὰ θεῶν ἐκώμασε Id. HF 180; also τὰν Ἡρακλέους κ. (sc. ᾠδὰν) ἀείδω ib. 681 (lyr.).

III an air for the flute

τὸ κ. an air for the flute, Trypho ap. Ath. 14.618c.

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