The corpus record

εἱρμός

eirmos · ὁ

train, series, sequence

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Where it lives

Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

εἱρμός · heirmos — LSJ

train, series, sequence, concatenation

train, series, sequence, Arist. Pr. 916a31, Ph. 1.6, Plot. 3.1.2, etc.; εἱ. αἰτιῶν concatenation of causes, Placit. 1.28.4, cf. Iamb. ap. Stob. 1.5.17; so εἱρμός alone, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.284, cf. Hierocl. in CA 11p.442M.

2 connexion

connexion, εἱ. λόγου πρὸς βίον Ph. 1.569.

In the wild

εἱρμὸν · heirmon Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.23.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2079)
εἱρμῷ · heirmōi Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 243)
εἱρμὸν · heirmon Plotinus, Enneads 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1360)
εἱρμὸν · heirmon Plotinus, Enneads 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1374)
εἱρμῶι · heirmōi Plotinus, Enneads 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1456)

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.

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