a guide, guide
= ἡγητής, a guide, S. OC 1521; σοφίης ἑὸν ἡγητῆρα his guide to philosophy, IG 3.947.
2 pilot-fish
the pilot-fish, Opp. H. 5.70.
3 a leader
= ἡγήτωρ, a leader, ἁ. ἀνήρ Pi. P. 1.69.
The corpus record
ἡγ-ητήρ
egeter · ὁ
a guide, guide, pilot-fish
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἡγητῶν · hēgētōn Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 238–240
- ἡγητέα · hēgētea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9284)
- ἡγητέα · hēgētea Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 433)
- ἡγητῆρος · hēgētēros Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1520–1521
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.