1. βλώσκω · blōskō — Beekes
The corpus record
βλώσκω
blosko
to go, come
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Rhesus 28 · 52.09/10k
- Electra 17 · 22.49/10k
- Helen 21 · 21.46/10k
- Phoenissae 20 · 20.72/10k
- Agamemnon 15 · 18.49/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 19 · 18.35/10k
- Ajax 14 · 17.8/10k
- Libation Bearers 9 · 16.74/10k
- Heracles 13 · 16.61/10k
- Philoctetes 14 · 15.91/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 12 · 14.46/10k
- Orestes 14 · 14.28/10k
Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. βλώσκω · blōskō — Frisk
3. βλώσκω · blōskō — Frisk
4. βλώσκω · blōskō — LSJ
go or come, mostly Poet. in aor. 2, δεῦρο μολόντες Od. 3.44; μολοῦσα ποτὶ μέγαρʼ Il. 6.286; of Time, πρὶν δωδεκάτη μόλῃ ἠώς 24.781; μέμβλωκε μάλιστα ἦμαρ has passed, Od. 17.190; ὅτε τὸ κύριον μόλῃ A. Ag. 766 (lyr.): freq. with Preps., μολεῖν εἰς οἴκους, ἐπὶ δόμον, S. OT 1010, E. Or. 176 (lyr.); πρὸς χθόνα S. Ph. 479; ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος, ἐκ Διός, A. Ag. 192 (lyr.), Pr. 667; κατὰ γαίας E. Alc. 107 (lyr.): c. acc. only, ἔμολεν Ἥρας λαόν Pi. N. 10.36; γῆν μολόντες Ἑλλάδα A. Pers. 809, cf. Ag. 968, Supp.
In the wild
- μόλοι · moloi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1448–1453
- μολόντι · molonti Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1223–1225
- μολών · molōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1397–1398
- μολὼν · molōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1587–1589
- μολεῖν · molein Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1667
- μολόν · molon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 292–293
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βλώσκω (scan p. 270; entry #1198).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βλώσκω (scan pp. 278-279; entry #1108). Root candidates: *hervor-.