Rhāp'sōde, n.

n. [Gr. ῥαψῳδός, rhapsodist. See RHAPSODY.] (Gr. Antig.) A rhapsodist. [Rare.]

I venture to think that the rhapsodes incurred the displeasure of Kleisthenes by reciting, not the Homeric Iliad, but the Homeric Thebais and Epigoni. Grote.