1. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Beekes
The corpus record
ἑκηβόλος
ekebolos
wish, want
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Where it lives
- Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Iliad 9 · 0.81/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Chantraine
3. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Chantraine
4. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Chantraine
5. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Frisk
6. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — Frisk
7. ἑκηβόλος · hekēbolos — LSJ
attaining his aim, epith. of Apollo, Il. 1.14, al. ; also Ἑκηβόλος alone, ib. 96, h.Ap. 45, Pi. Pae. 9.38, al. ; of Artemis, S. Fr. 401 ; ἑκηβόλοι Διὸς χέρες E. Ion 213 (lyr.) ; τόξα A. Pr. 711, Eu. 628 ; σφενδόναι E. Ph. 1142 ; ἔθνος ὀϊστῶν Opp. H. 4.205 ; in later Prose, ἑ. βέλη Plb. 13.3.4 ; μάχαι D.H. 10.16 ; ἑ. ἄνδρες Plu. Luc. 28 ; τὰ ἑ. Onos. 20.1 ; τοξεύματα, ὅπλα, Ael. Tact. 2.8, Arr. Tact. 3.3 ; τοξόται καὶ ἑκηβόλοι Agath. 3.17 : Dor. Sup. ἑκαβολέστατος Archyt. ap. Iamb. Protr. 4. Adv.
In the wild
- ἑκηβόλοισιν · hekēboloisin Aeschylus, Eumenides 625–630
- ἑκηβόλοις · hekēbolois Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 709–711
- ἑκηβόλοις · hekēbolois Euripides, Heracles 472–473
- ἑκηβόλοισι · hekēboloisi Euripides, Ion 2 (DIORISIS sentence 79)
- ἑκηβόλων · hekēbolōn Euripides, Orestes *)ore/sths (DIORISIS sentence 174)
- ἑκηβόλοις · hekēbolois Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 669)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἑκηβόλος (scan p. 445; entry #1967). Root candidates: *uek-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἑκηβόλος (scan p. 344; entry #2364).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἑκηβόλος (scan pp. 508-509; entry #1810).
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