The corpus record

δακτύλιος

daktulios · ὁ

ring, signet

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Where it lives

Exodus 22 · 9.29/10k
Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — LSJ

ring, signet, signet

ring, signet, Sapph. 35, Hdt. 2.38, Ar. Pl. 884, Pl. R. 359e; ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δ. keeper of the signet, LXX To. 1.22; ὁ τῆς πόλεως δ. OGI 229.88 (Smyrna, iii B. C.); δ. φαρμακίτης Eup. 87, cf. Antiph. 177.

II anything ring-shaped

anything ring-shaped, as,

1 felloe

felloe of a wheel, Poll. 1.145.

2 anus

anus, Dsc. 1.70, Luc. Demon. 17, PRyl. 28.68 (iv A. D.).

3 movable rings

pl., movable rings on a bit, X. Eq. 10.9.

4 stone

stone to which mooring-cables were attached, Hsch.

5 door-handle

door-handle, Id.

6 end of the steering-paddle

end of the steering-paddle, Id.

In the wild

δακτύλιος · daktylios Aristotle, Metaphysics book 13 (DIORISIS sentence 3704)
δακτύλιος · daktylios Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1 (DIORISIS sentence 284)
δακτυλίους · daktylious Epictetus, Discourses 1.22 (DIORISIS sentence 1175)
δακτυλίους · daktylious Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5795)
δακτυλίους · daktylious Plato, Alcibiades 1 128
δακτυλίους · daktylious Plato, Hippias Minor 368

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Where it came from

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