δεσμ-ωτήριον · desm-ōtērion — LSJ
prison
prison, Th. 6.60, Pl. Grg. 486a, D. 9.60, etc.; δ. ἀνδρῶν Hdt. 3.23: pl., = Lat. ergastula, Plu. TG 8.
The corpus record
δεσμ-ωτήριον
desmoterion · τό
prison
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Where it lives
- Crito 2 · 4.8/10k
- Phaedo 6 · 2.75/10k
- Acts 3 · 1.67/10k
- Genesis 5 · 1.66/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
- Discourses 8 · 1.08/10k
- Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
- Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- δεσμωτηρίου · desmōtēriou Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..35 (DIORISIS sentence 422)
- δεσμωτηρίῳ · desmōtēriōi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..52 (DIORISIS sentence 608)
- δεσμωτήριον · desmōtērion Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 165)
- δεσμωτήριον · desmōtērion Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- δεσμωτήριον · desmōtērion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2136)
- δεσμωτηρίῳ · desmōtēriōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1142)
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Where it came from
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