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βλέφαρον

blepharon

Augenlider

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Where it lives

De Somno et Vigilia 2 · 6.73/10k
Plutus 4 · 4.96/10k
Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
Orestes 4 · 4.08/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 3 · 3.84/10k
Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
Proverbia 4 · 3.6/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
On Hunting 3 · 3.3/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βλέφαρον · blepharon — Frisk

βλέφαρον, gewöhnl. pl. -α n. ‘Augenlider’, poet. auch ‘Augen’ (seit Il... — Davon βλεφαρίδες f. pl. (selten sg.) “Augenwinpern’, auch “Augenlider’ (Ar., X., Arist.); im selben Sinn βλεφαρίτιδες τρίχες (Paul. Aeg.; vgl. Redard Les noms grecs en -της 105); βλεφαρικός “auf die Augenlider bezüglich’ (Cael. Aur.); βλεφαρίξω “blinzeln’ (Sch.). Wie neben βλέπω γλέπω, so auch neben βλέφαρον γλέφαρον (Pi., Alkm.). … — [Frisk, s.v. βλέφαρον, p. 273]

2. βλέφαρον · blepharon — Frisk

βλέφαρον. Für Anknüpfung an βλέπω mit expressiver Gemination Benveniste Origines 15. — [Frisk, s.v. βλέφαρον, p. 2178]

3. βλέφᾰρον · blepharon — LSJ

eyelids

eyelids, βλέφαρʼ ἀμφὶ καὶ ὀφρύας Od. 9.389, al.; of sleep, φίλα βλέφαρʼ ἀμφικαλύψας 5.493; ὕπνος ἀπὸ βλεφάροιϊν (dual) Il. 10.187; ὕπνον ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔχευεν Od. 20.54, al.; παῦρον ἐπὶ γλεφάροις ὕπνον ἀναλίσκοισα Pi. P. 9.24; γλεφάρων ἁδὺ κλάϊστρον ib. 1.8; βλέφαρα κέκλῃται S. Fr. 711; β. συμβαλεῖν, κοιμᾶν ὕπνῳ, A. Ag. 15, Th. 3; of weeping, δάκρυ χαμαὶ βάλεν ἐκ βλεφάροιϊν Od. 17.490, cf. 23.33; of death, λύειν β. S. Ant. 1302: in Prose, Antipho Soph. 81a, Pl. Ti. 45d, PPetr. 3p.23 (iii B. C.)

II eyes

in pl., eyes, βλεφάρων κυανεάων Hes. Sc. 7 (where the fem. Adj. points to a nom. ἡ βλέφαρος); freq. in Trag., σκοτώσω β. καὶ δεδορκότα S. Aj. 85, cf. Tr. 107 (lyr.): in sg., of the sun, ἁμέρας β. Id. Ant. 104 (lyr.); of the curtain of darkness at nightfall, νυκτὸς ἀφεγγὲς β. E. Ph. 543.

In the wild

βλέφαρα · blephara Aeschylus, Agamemnon 14–15
βλέφαρα · blephara Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1–3
βλέφαρα · blephara Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 305)
βλέφαρα · blephara Aristophanes, Frogs 1440–1441
βλέφαρʼ · blepharʼ Aristophanes, Plutus 720 (DIORISIS sentence 575)
βλέφαρα · blephara Aristophanes, Plutus 735 (DIORISIS sentence 585)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βλέφαρον (scan p. 267; entry #1177).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βλέφαρον (scan pp. 273-274; entry #1083).

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