Achelous
Achelous, name of several rivers, Il. 21.194, 24.616, Hes. Th. 340, Str. 9.5.10, etc.
II any stream, water
in Poets, any stream: generally, water, S. Fr. 5, E. Ba. 625, Ar. Fr. 351, Achae. 9, Ephor. 27.
The corpus record
Ἀχελῷος
*acheloos · ὁ
Achelous, any stream, water
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Where it lives
- Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- History 3 · 0.2/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Ἀχελῷον · Achelōion Euripides, Bacchae 624–626
- Ἀχελῷος · Achelōios Herodotus, Histories 7.126.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7760)
- Ἀχελῷος · Achelōios Sophocles, Trachiniae 507–512
- Ἀχελῷον · Achelōion Sophocles, Trachiniae 9–12
- Ἀχελῷος · Achelōios Thucydides, History 2.102.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1733)
- Ἀχελῷον · Achelōion Thucydides, History 3.106.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2455)
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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.