sprung from harp-playing
sprung from harp-playing, Com. epith. of Archytas, strictly a parody of Homerʼs μοιρηγενής, Bion ap. D.L. 4.52.
The corpus record
ψαλληγενής
psallegenes
sprung from harp-playing
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Where it lives
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ψαλληγενές · psallēgenes Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3521)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.