of a thousand ships
of a thousand ships, στρατός E. Or. 352 (anap.); ὁ χ. Ἑλλάδος Ἄρης Id. Andr. 106 (eleg.); ἐλάταις χιλιόναυσιν, = χιλίαις ναυσί, Id. IA 174 (lyr.); also in later Prose, χ. στόλος Str. 13.1.27.
The corpus record
χῑλιό-ναυς
chilionaus · ὁ
of a thousand ships
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Where it lives
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χιλιόναυσιν · chilionausin Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1 (DIORISIS sentence 71)
- χιλιόναυν · chilionaun Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 212)
- χιλιόναυν · chilionaun Euripides, Rhesus 2 (DIORISIS sentence 167)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.