Δῆμος

Where it lives

• Knights 22 · 24.77/10k
• Against Aphobus 3 2 · 5.16/10k
• On the Property of Aristophanes 1 · 3.22/10k
• Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Δῆμʼ · Dēmʼ Aristophanes, Knights 1340 (DIORISIS sentence 972)
• Δῆμε · Dēme Aristophanes, Knights 1 (DIORISIS sentence 806)
• Δῆμος · Dēmos Aristophanes, Knights 40 (DIORISIS sentence 46)
• Δῆμε · Dēme Aristophanes, Knights 50 (DIORISIS sentence 49)
• Δῆμε · Dēme Aristophanes, Knights 725 (DIORISIS sentence 527)
• Δῆμʼ · Dēmʼ Aristophanes, Knights 820 (DIORISIS sentence 591)

6 of 27 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Δῆμος (scan pp. 372-373; entry #1666).

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