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χάρμα

charma · τό

source of joy, delight

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χάρμα · charma — LSJ

I source of joy, delight

in concrete sense, source of joy, delight, χ. γενέσθαι or ἔσσεσθαί τινι, Il. 17.636, 23.342; χ. φίλοις Thgn. 692; χ. μεῖζον ἐλπίδος κλύειν A. Ag. 266, cf. S. Fr. 636.1; μᾶζαν, ἣν . . Δηὼ βροτοῖσι χ. δωρεῖται Antiph. 1; of victory in the games, ἄπονον ἔλαβον χ. Pi. O. 10(11).22; καλλίνικον χ. Id. I. 5(4).54: freq. in pl., Od. 6.185; μὴ γείτοσι χάρματα γήμῃς Hes. Op. 701, cf. Max. 87 (sg.); χάρματʼ Ἐρινύος, χάρματα θηρῶν, E. Ph. 1503, Supp. 282 (both lyr.); χάρματʼ ἄλλοις ἔθηκεν, ἐμβαλεῖν χ. ἀνθρώ

2 source of malignant joy

source of malignant joy, Il. 3.51, 6.82, al.; λυπρά, χάρματα δʼ ἐχθροῖς A. Pers. 1034 (lyr.).

II joy, delight

in abstract sense, joy, delight, τὴν δʼ ἅμα χ. καὶ ἄλγος ἕλε φρένα Od. 19.471, cf. h.Cer. 371, Hes. Sc. 400.—Poet. and late Prose, Plu. Mar. 46.

In the wild

χάρμα · charma Aeschylus, Agamemnon 266
χάρματα · charmata Aeschylus, Eumenides 984–986
χάρματα · charmata Aeschylus, Persians 1033–1034
χάρμα · charma Euripides, Helen 320 (DIORISIS sentence 193)
χαρμάτων · charmatōn Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 734)
χάρματʼ · charmatʼ Euripides, Phoenissae *)/antigo/nh (DIORISIS sentence 868)

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