The corpus record
Χθών
chthon
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Senses
This appears to be a proper name — a person, a place, a river — attested in the corpus but outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul; no lexicon entry is recorded.
Attestations
- Χθονὸς · Chthonos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1–2
- Χθονὸς · Chthonos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 201–207
- Χθονὸς · Chthonos Aeschylus, Eumenides 4–6
- Χθών · Chthōn Euripides, Hecuba 70 (DIORISIS sentence 27)
- Χθὼν · Chthōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 773)
- Χθονὸς · Chthonos Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 133)
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 1683-1684; entry #6567 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 1278-1279; entry #8733 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
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