The corpus record

ἀγγελία

aggelia

fonctionne comme nom d'action de ἀγγέλλω et de ses eomposés

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
1 John 2 · 9.41/10k
Proverbia 3 · 2.7/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
Odyssey 20 · 2.3/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Iliad 17 · 1.52/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Histories 25 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ᾿Αγγελία · ᾿Angelia — Chantraine

᾿Αγγελία fonctionne comme nom d'action de ἀγγέλλω et de ses eomposés; on a toutefois créé ἄγγελμα (Ε., Th., etc.) et ses composés, προάγγελσις (Th) et quelques autres composés. Noms d'agent rares (on ἃ ἄγγελος) : ἀπαγγελτήρ (Phryn. trag., AP), ἐπαγγελτήρ (5.1.6. 558); avec p.-ê. f. ἀγγέλτειρα (Orph. H. 78,8). En outre καταγγέλτης (Gloss). L'adjectif verbal -αγγελτός figure dans des composés, notamment αὐτεπάγγελτος … — [Chantraine, s.v. ᾿Αγγελία, p. 22]

2. ἀγγελία · angelia — LSJ

message, tidings, a report of, concerning, a message about, news of

message, tidings, as well the substance as the conveyance thereof, Il. 18.17, Od. 2.30, etc.; ἀ. λέγουσα τάδε Hdt. 2.114; ἀγγελίην φάτο, ἀπόφασθε, ἀπέειπε, Il. 18.17, 9.422, 7.416; φέρειν 15.174; πέμπειν Hdt. 2.114; ἐσπέμπειν 3.69; τὰς ἀ. ἐσφέρειν 1.114, 3.77:— ἐμὴ ἀ. a report of me, concerning me, Il. 19.337; ἀ. τινός a message about a person or thing, ἀγγελίην πατρὸς φέρει ἐρχομένοιο news of thy fatherʼs coming, Od. 1.408; ἀνέρος αἴθονος ἀ. S. Aj. 222; ἀ. τῆς Χίου ἀφικνεῖται Th. 8.15; ἦλθε ἀ.

2 announcement, proclamation, command, order

announcement, proclamation, Pi. P. 2.4: command, order, h.Cer. 448, Pi. O. 3.28, cf. Od. 5.150, 7.263.

Ἀ. personified as daughter of Hermes, Pi. O. 8.82.

II messenger

messenger, Ἶρις ἀ. v.l. Hes. Th. 781.

In the wild

ἀγγελίας · angelias Aeschylus, Agamemnon 85–87
ἀγγελίας · angelias Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1040
ἀγγελίας · angelias Aristotle, Ars Poetica 15
ἀγγελία · angelia Epictetus, Discourses 3.18 (DIORISIS sentence 4635)
ἀγγελίας · angelias Euripides, Hecuba *xoro/s (DIORISIS sentence 38)
ἀγγελίαν · angelian Euripides, Helen 2 (DIORISIS sentence 979)

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Where it came from

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