viper
viper, Pl. Smp. 217e, Arist. HA 511a16, etc.: metaph., συκοφάντης καὶ ἔ. τὴν φύσιν D. 25.96; ὥσπερ ἔ. ἢ σκορπίος ἠρκὼς τὸ κέντρον ib. 52; cf. ἔχιδνα.
II
= ἔχιον II, Nic. Th. 541, 636, Plin. HN 22.50.
The corpus record
ἔχῐς
echis · ὁ
viper
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Where it lives
- Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
- Enneads 7 · 0.33/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
- Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἔχηι · echēi Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 993)
- ἔχεως · echeōs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1150b (DIORISIS sentence 2425)
- ἔχις · echis Epictetus, Discourses 1.28 (DIORISIS sentence 1498)
- ἔχις · echis Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6168)
- ἔχιν · echin Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 195)
- ἔχεών · echeōn Plato, Euthydemus 290
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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.