The corpus record

Ἑλλην-ικός

*ellenikos

Hellenic, Greek

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Where it lives

Letter 9 1 · 8.76/10k
On the Public Fund 2 · 8.65/10k
Third Olynthiac 2 · 8.5/10k
Funeral Oration 3 · 7.38/10k
Second Olynthiac 1 · 4.89/10k
For the Liberty of the Rhodians 1 · 4.57/10k
Anabasis 25 · 4.45/10k
Machabaeorum II 5 · 4.33/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
On the Navy-Boards 1 · 3.89/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ἑλλην-ικός · Hellēn-ikos — LSJ

Hellenic, Greek

Hellenic, Greek, Hdt. 4.108, etc.

2 the Greek language

ἑλληνική (sc. γλῶσσα), ἡ, the Greek language, Apoc. 9.11.

3 the Greeks, Greek soldiery

τὸ Ἑ. the Greeks collectively, Hdt. 7.139, al.; Greek soldiery, X. An. 1.4.13.

b Greek culture

Greek culture, D.H. 1.89: pl., Hdt. 4.78.

4 the history of Greek affairs, Greek literature

τὰ Ἑ. the history of Greek affairs, Th. 1.97, etc.; title of works by X., Theopomp.Hist., etc.; Greek literature, App. BC 4.67.

II like the Greeks, in Greek fashion

like the Greeks, οὐ . . πατρῷον τόνδʼ ἐδεξάμην νόμον, οὐδʼ Ἑ. E. Alc. 684, cf. Ar. Ach. 115, Plu. Luc. 41: Comp. -ώτερος Id. Comp.Lyc.Num. 1; ἡ συγγνώμη τῆς τιμωρίας -ώτερον Lib. Ep. 75.4: Sup. -ώτατος D. 19.308, D.H. 1.89. Adv. -κῶς in Greek fashion, Hdt. 4.108, E. IT 660, Antiph. 184.

III pure Greek, in pure Greek

pure Greek, οὐχ Ἑ. λέξις Orus ap. Eust. 859.55, cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 207, S.E. M. 1.187. Adv. -κῶς in pure Greek, opp. βαρβαρικῶς, Phld. Lib. p.13 O., cf. S.E. M. 1.243, Porph. Abst. 3.3.

2 in Hellenistic Greek

in Hellenistic Greek, opp. Ἀττικῶς, Moer. 1, al.; but also, opp. κοινόν ‘in common speech’, Id. 347, al.

IV pagan

pagan, LXX 2 Ma. 4.10, al., Jul. Ep. 84a, Suid. s.v. Διοκλητιανός.

In the wild

Ἑλληνικὴ · Hellēnikē Aeschylus, Persians 409–411
Ἑλληνικαί · Hellēnikai Aeschylus, Persians 413–420
Ἑλληνικὸν · Hellēnikon Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 267–270
Ἑλληνικόν · Hellēnikon Aristophanes, Acharnians 115 (DIORISIS sentence 96)
Ἑλληνικὴν · Hellēnikēn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 141)
Ἑλληνικὴν · Hellēnikēn Aristotle, Politics 1271b (DIORISIS sentence 758)

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Where it came from

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