1. ἀγλαός · aglaos — Beekes
The corpus record
ἀγλαός
aglaos
splendid, beautiful, famous
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Where it lives
- Theogony 4 · 5.81/10k
- Iliad 43 · 3.86/10k
- Odyssey 29 · 3.34/10k
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. ἀγλαός · aglaos — Chantraine
3. ἀγλαός · aglaos — Chantraine
4. ἀγλαός · aglaos — Frisk
5. ἀγλαός · aglaos — Frisk
6. ἀγλαός · aglaos — LSJ
splendid, shining, bright, epith. of beautiful objects, ἀ. ὕδωρ Il. 2.307, etc.; γυῖα 19.385, cf. B. 16.103; μηρία Hes. Op. 337; ἥβης ἀ. ἄνθος Tyrt. 10.28, cf. Thgn. l.c., B. 5.154; then generally, splendid, beautiful, ἄποινα Il. 1.23; δῶρα ib. 213, etc.; ἔργα Od. 10.223; ἄλσος Il. 2.506, cf. Pi. N. 4.20, Simon. 13, etc.; noble, glorious, ἀγλαόν [ἐστιν] ἀνδρὶ μάχεσθαι γῆς πέρι Callin. 1.6.
of men, either beautiful or famous, noble, Il. 2.736, 826, Hes. Sc. 37, Pi. O. 14.7, B. 16.2, etc.: c. dat. rei, famous for a thing, κέρᾳ ἀγλαός, sarcastically, Il. 11.385.— Ep. and Lyr. word, twice in Trag. (lyr.) ἀγλαὰς Θήβας S. OT 152; Νηρηίδος ἀγλαὸν ἕδραν E. l.c.; also in later poetry, as Theoc. 28.3. Adv. ἀγλαῶς Ar. Lys. 640. (Perh. containing base γελα- in reduced form.)
In the wild
- ἀγλαῶς · aglaōs Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1.640 (DIORISIS sentence 497)
- ἀγλαὰ · aglaa Herodotus, Histories 6.19.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6274)
- ἀγλαὸς · aglaos Shield of Heracles 37–38
- ἀγλαὰ · aglaa Theogony 364–366
- ἀγλαὰ · aglaa Theogony 412–413
- ἀγλαὸν · aglaon Theogony 627–628
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀγλαός (scan p. 60; entry #98).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἀγλαός (scan p. 25; entry #70).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀγλαός (scan p. 42; entry #80).
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