The corpus record

ἑκᾰτόμ-πους

ekatompous · ὁ

hundred-footed

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Where it lives

Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant

ἑκᾰτόμ-πους · hekatom-pous — LSJ

hundred-footed, the 50 Nereids, the 100 Nereids, multitude

hundred-footed: in S. OC 718 (lyr.), ἑκατόμποδες Νηρηΐδες, some take it literally to mean the 50 Nereids (the number assigned to them by Hes. Th. 264, Pi. I. 6(5).6, A. Fr. 174, E. IT 427), others the 100 Nereids (Pl. Criti. 116e), others merely to express a notion of multitude.

In the wild

ἑκατομπόδων · hekatompodōn Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 717–719

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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