The corpus record

αἱμᾰτηρός

aimateros

bloodstained

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Where it lives

Eumenides 3 · 5.72/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἱμᾰτηρός · haimatēros — LSJ

bloodstained, bloodshot, fed by the blood of the victim, bloody, murderous, caused by the blood-reeking wound

bloodstained, χεῖπες S. Ant. 975 (lyr.); ξίφος E. Ph. 625; ὄμμα bloodshot, Id. IA 381; φλὸξ αἱματηρὰ κἀπὸ . .δρυός, i.e. ἀφʼ αἵματος καὶ δρυός, fed by the blood of the victim and the wood, S. Tr. 766: esp. bloody, murderous, πνεῦμα A. Eu. 137; τεῦχος Id. Ag. 815; θηγάναι Id. Eu. 859; ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί S. OC 552; στόνος caused by the blood-reeking wound, Id. Ph. 694 (lyr.).

II of blood, of blood, conveying blood

of blood, μένος A. Ag. 1067; σταγόνες gouts of blood, E. Ph. 1415; αἱ. ῥοῦς Hp. Coac. 502; αἱ. φλέβες conveying blood, Philostr. VA 8.7.

In the wild

αἱματηρὸν · haimatēron Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1064–1067
αἱματηρόν · haimatēron Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1533
αἱματηρὸν · haimatēron Aeschylus, Agamemnon 813–815
αἱματηρὸν · haimatēron Aeschylus, Eumenides 137–139
αἱματηρὰς · haimatēras Aeschylus, Eumenides 858–863
αἱματηρὰ · haimatēra Aeschylus, Eumenides 715–716

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Where it came from

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