The corpus record

ἀλεξ-ητήριος

alexeterios

able to keep off, defend

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k

What it meant

ἀλεξ-ητήριος · alex-ētērios — LSJ

able to keep off, defend, help, for defence

able to keep off, defend, or help, esp. as epith. of gods, Ζεὺς ἀ. A. Th. 8; ξύλον ἀ. club for defence, E. HF 470.

2 remedy, medicine, protection, charm against

ἀλεξητήριον (sc. φάρμακον), τό, remedy, medicine, Hp. Acut. 54; protection, X. Eq. 5.6; ἀ. τῆς δηλήσεως charm against .., Thphr. HP 7.13.4; ἀ. νούσων Nic. Th. 7, IG 9(1).881.3 (Corcyra); ὄρη ἀ. ὑετῶν Aristid. Or. 48(1).11.

In the wild

ἀλεξητήριος · alexētērios Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 5–9
ἀλεξητήριον · alexētērion Euripides, Heracles 470–471
ἀλεξητήρια · alexētēria Plato, Statesman 279
ἀλεξητηρίων · alexētēriōn Plato, Statesman 279
ἀλεξητήρια · alexētēria Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 5.6 (DIORISIS sentence 144)

Where it came from

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