folly, silliness
folly, silliness, Cratin. 188, Pl. R. 560d, al., Phld. Rh. 1.249 S., etc.; γνώμης Them. Or. 1.11d.
The corpus record
ἠλῐθῐ-ότης
elithiotes · ἡ
folly, silliness
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Where it lives
- Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
- Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἠλιθιότητος · ēlithiotētos Plato, Hippias Minor 365
- ἠλιθιότητα · ēlithiotēta Plato, Republic 8.560 (DIORISIS sentence 5077)
- ἠλιθιότητός · ēlithiotētos Plato, Theaetetus 177
- ἠλιθιότητα · ēlithiotēta Plotinus, Enneads 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 384)
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.