ῥαψῳδέω

A. recite poems, esp. those of Homer, τί δή ποτ’ οὖν . . ῥαψῳδεῖς . . περιιών; Pl. Ion 541b; ἅ τε εὖ ῥαψῳδεῖ καὶ ἃ μή ib.533c, cf. Isoc. 12.33; of the poems of Archilochus, Clearch. 61; τι περί τινος Luc. JConf. 1:—Pass., of the poems, to be recited, Lycurg. 102.

2. abs., Arist. Po. 1462a6; of Homer and Hesiod, ῥ. περιιόντας reciting or declaiming, Pl. R. 600d; Ξενοφάνης . . ἐρραψῴδει τὰ ἑαυτοῦ D.L. 9.18; ἐμμέτρως ἐρρ. πρὸς ἄνδρας φίλους Luc. Nec. 1.

3. in contemptuous sense, repeat by heart or rote, declaim, οὐδὲν . . ἀλλ’ ἢ ῥαψῳδήσουσιν οἱ πρέσβεις περιιόντες D. 14.12, cf. 25.2, Luc. DMort. 15.2; [λόγοι] ῥαψῳδούμενοι ἄνευ ἀνακρίσεως καὶ διδαχῆς Pl. Phdr. 277e, cf. Phld. Rh. 2.39S.

II. c. acc. pers., sing of one, celebrate, τοὺς ἀνδρείους Ar. Ec. 679.