The corpus record

ἀμηχαν-ία

amechania · ἡ

want of means

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Where it lives

On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Economics 2 · 1.12/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἀμηχαν-ία · amēchan-ia — LSJ

want of means, resources, helplessness

want of means or resources, helplessness, ἀμηχανίη δʼ ἔχε θυμόν Od. 9.295; πενίην μητέρʼ ἀμηχανίης Thgn. 385, cf. 619 (pl.), Alc. 92, Hdt. 8.111, etc.; ὑπʼ ἀμηχανίας Ar. Av. 475.

II hardship, trouble

of things, hardship, trouble, χειμῶνος ἀμηχανίη Hes. Op. 496.

In the wild

ἀμηχανίας · amēchanias Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 406)
ἀμηχανία · amēchania Epictetus, Discourses 4.10 (DIORISIS sentence 7039)
ἀμηχανίην · amēchaniēn Herodotus, Histories 8.111.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9090)
ἀμηχανίη · amēchaniē Works and Days 493–497
ἀμηχανίης · amēchaniēs Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 1 (DIORISIS sentence 10)
ἀμηχανίη · amēchaniē Odyssey 9.295

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Where it came from

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