The corpus record

ἄλκιμος

alkimos

stout, brave

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Where it lives

Suppliants 4 · 5.69/10k
Hiero 2 · 3.36/10k
Iliad 36 · 3.23/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Wasps 3 · 3.08/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Plutus 2 · 2.48/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Odyssey 12 · 1.38/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄλκῐμος · alkimos — LSJ

stout, brave

stout, brave, of men and things, Τρῶες, ἔγχος, δοῦρε, Il. 11.483, 3.338, Od. 22.125; ἦτορ Callin. 1.10; θυμός Tyrt. 10.17; νέκυς Pi. Pae. 6.98; δράκων Epich. 60: Comp. -ώτερος Hdt. 1.79, 103, Arist. HA 607a11, etc.: Sup. -ώτατος E. Ph. 743, Plb. 6.5.9; ἄ. τὰ πολεμικά Hdt. 3.4; ἐς ἀλκὴν ἄλκιμα ib. 110; ἄ. μάχη E. Heracl. 683:—prov., πάλαι ποτʼ ἦσαν ἄλκιμοι Μιλήσιοι ‘times are changed’, Anacr. 85, Ar. Pl. 1002, Philostr. VS 1.22.4:—less common in Prose, Pl. R. 614b (with play on Ἀλκίνου), Arist. H

II fortifying, giving succour

fortifying, ὕδωρ Plu. QConv. 2.669b s.v.l.; giving succour, PMag.Leid.W. 14.10.

In the wild

ἄλκιμοι · alkimoi Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 801)
ἄλκιμοι · alkimoi Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 869)
ἄλκιμοι · alkimoi Aristophanes, Wasps 1060 (DIORISIS sentence 780)
ἀλκιμώτατοι · alkimōtatoi Aristophanes, Wasps 1060 (DIORISIS sentence 780)
ἄλκιμοι · alkimoi Aristophanes, Wasps 1060 (DIORISIS sentence 780)
ἀλκιμώτερος · alkimōteros Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 499)

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Where it came from

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