The corpus record

ἀλγεινός

algeinos

painful, grievous

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Where it lives

Antigone 5 · 6.82/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
Gorgias 6 · 2.28/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀλγεινός · algeinos — LSJ

painful, grievous

painful, grievous, A. Pr. 199, 240, S. OT 1530, E. Med. 1037; τὰ μέλλοντα ἀ. Th. 2.39, cf. ib. 43 (Comp.). Adv. -νῶς S. Ant. 436, Pl. Grg. 476c.

II feeling pain, suffering

rare in pass. sense, feeling pain, suffering, S. OC 1664.—Comp. and Sup. in common use ἀλγίων, ἄλγιστος (q. v.), but ἀλγεινότερος, -ότατος, Th. 2.43, Pl. Grg. 477d, Smp. 218a, Arist. Pr. 890a37, and v.l. Isoc. 14.48. Hom. form ἀλεγεινός, q.v.

In the wild

ἀλγεινὰ · algeina Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 200
ἀλγειναῖσιν · algeinaisin Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 239–240
ἀλγεινόν · algeinon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1117b (DIORISIS sentence 967)
ἀλγεινὴν · algeinēn Euripides, Bacchae 1327–1328
ἀλγείνʼ · algeinʼ Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 154)
ἀλγεινὸν · algeinon Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 547)

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Where it came from

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