The corpus record

Βόσπορ-ος

bosporos

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Where it lives

Against Phormio 20 · 61.75/10k
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 1 · 5.47/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Against Lacritus 1 · 2.8/10k
Against Leptines 3 · 2.66/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Histories 16 · 0.87/10k

What it meant

1. Βόσπορος · Bosporos — Frisk

Βόσπορος m. N. mehrerer Meerengen, aber vorzügl. = die Meerenge von Konstantinopel, auch auf den Hellespont bezogen (Hdt., A. usw.). — Vereinzelt gebrauchte Ableitungen: Boondgeuos, -ἰος, -ἰτης (S.), Boonogeiov N. eines Tempels (Decr. ap. D.), Boonognvös, -ἄνός "Bewohner des Königtums von B.’ (Str.); zur Bildung Chantraine Formation 206; Schwyzer 490 m. Lit. Eig. „Rinderfurt“, aus ἘΒοόσ-πορος durch Hyphärese … — [Frisk, s.v. Βόσπορος, p. 286]

2. Βόσπορ-ος · Bospor-os — LSJ

Ox-ford

wrongly expld. by the Greeks as Ox-ford, name of several straits, β. Κιμμέριος, Θρᾴκιος, Hdt. 4.12, 83, etc. (also applied to the Hellespont by A. Pers. 723, 746, S. Aj. 884, Sch.ad ll. cc.):—Adj. Βοσπόρ-ειος, ον, S. Fr. 707: Βοσπόριος, α, ον, Id. Aj. l.c.: Βοσπορεῖον, τό, name of a temple, Decr.Byz. ap. D. 18.91:

dweller on the Bosporus

Βοσπορίτης [ι], ου, ὁ,dweller on the Bosporus, S. Fr. 503:

inhabitant of the kingdom of Bosporus

Βοσπορανός or Βοσπορ-ηνός, ὁ, inhabitant of the kingdom of Bosporus, Str. 7.4.7, 11.2.10, 16.2.39.

In the wild

Βόσπορον · Bosporon Aeschylus, Persians 723
Βόσπορον · Bosporon Aeschylus, Persians 745–746
Βόσπορος · Bosporos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 732–733
Βοσπόρῳ · Bosporōi Aristotle, Economics 1347b (DIORISIS sentence 166)
Βοσπόρωι · Bosporōi Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 53)
Βόσπορον · Bosporon Demosthenes, Against Lacritus 10 (DIORISIS sentence 18)

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