The corpus record

ἐλαστρέω

elastreo

drove, to drive about, row

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἐλασ-τρέω · elas-treō — LSJ

drove, to drive about, row, to be rowed

πολλοὶ δʼ ἀροτῆρες . . ζεύγεα δινεύοντες ἐλάστρεον they drove the teams, Il. 18.543; κατʼ ἀμαξιτὸν ἣν ἠλάστρεις Thgn. 600; ἐ. τινά to drive about, of the Furies, E. IT 971; in later Prose, δαιμονίοις χόλοις ἐλαστρηθέντες D.H. 1.23; row, Ion. part. ἐλαστρεῦντας (-εύοντας codd.) Arr. Ind. 32.9:—Pass., of ships, to be rowed, Hdt. 2.158, 7.24; cf. ἐλαστροῦται (sic)· ἐλαύνεται, Hsch.; -ιῶν· διαγινώσκων, Id.

In the wild

ἠλάστρουν · ēlastroun Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 970 (DIORISIS sentence 572)
ἠλάστρουν · ēlastroun Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 554)
ἐλαστρευμένας · elastreumenas Herodotus, Histories 2.158.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2698)
ἐλαστρεομένας · elastreomenas Herodotus, Histories 7.24.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7244)
ἐλάστρεον · elastreon Iliad 18.543

Where it came from

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