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μουσό-ω ,
A.furnish with power of song, ὅσα φύσις μεμούσωκε, of birds, Ph.1.80.
2. adorn with mosaic, Ath.Mitt.8.328 (Tralles).
II. mostly Pass., to be trained in the ways of the Muses, to be educated or accomplished, “οὐ μεμούσωμαι κακῶς” Ar.Lys.1127; “τὸ μεμουσῶσθαι ἐπαινοῦσιν” Phld.Mus.p.77 K., cf. Ph.2.387; “πολυγράμματος ὢν καὶ μεμουσωμένος” Plu.2.1121f; τὸ Κίμωνος ὑγρὸν καὶ μεμουσωμένον ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖς his easy and polished manners, Id.Per.5; μουσωθεὶς φωνήν taught to utter it, Ael.NA16.3.
2. to be set to music, “τὰ δι᾽ ᾠδῆς . . μουσωθέντα κρούματα” D.H.Dem.40, cf. Cat.Cod.Astr.8(3).188; to be filled with melody, “μεμούσωται τὰ περὶ τὴν θάλατταν ὑπ᾽ ᾠδῆς τῶν πετρῶν” Philostr.Her.10.7.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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