The corpus record

ἑλκ-ώδης

elkodes

like a wound

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What it meant

ἑλκ-ώδης · helk-ōdēs — LSJ

like a wound, sore, ulcerated

like a wound or sore, ulcerated, στόματα Hp. Epid. 3.7; χρώς E. Hipp. 1359 (anap.); κνῆμαι Arist. Pr. 895a31.

2 causing, accompanied by soreness

causing or accompanied by soreness, ἁφή S.E. M. 7.179; κόπος Gal. 7.179; πόνος Archig. ap. eund. 8.106; κονιορτός Lyd. Ost. 1.

II irritable

metaph., irritable, Plb. 32.11.8; θυμός Plu. Cohib. 2.454b.

Where it came from

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