1. Ἑλλήσποντος · Hellēspontos — Chantraine
The corpus record
Ἑλλήσποντος
ellespontos
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Where it lives
- On the Chersonese 4 · 9.48/10k
- In Defense of Mantitheus 1 · 8.76/10k
- Apollodorus Against Polycles 4 · 8.73/10k
- Against Andocides 2 · 7.7/10k
- Funeral Oration 3 · 7.38/10k
- Philip's Letter 1 · 7.12/10k
- For Polystratus 1 · 5.24/10k
- Third Philippic 2 · 4.7/10k
- Hippias Minor 2 · 4.59/10k
- Histories 71 · 3.87/10k
- Hellenica 25 · 3.8/10k
- On the Property of Aristophanes 1 · 3.22/10k
Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Ἑλλήσποντος · Hellēspontos — Frisk
3. Ἑλλήσ-ποντος · Hellēs-pontos — LSJ
Hellespont or sea of Helle (daughter of Athamas, who was drowned therein), now the Dardanelles, Il. 2.845, Hdt. 4.38, etc.:—sts. taken to include the Propontis, Id. 1.57, etc.:—the adjacent country, Th. 2.9, etc.: in this sense without Art. in Att. Inscrr., IG 1(2).106.16, al.: said to be used of the Aegean, Str. 7 Fr. 58.
In the wild
- Ἑλλήσποντον · Hellēsponton Aeschylus, Persians 745–746
- Ἑλλησπόντωι · Hellēspontōi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 139)
- Ἑλλήσποντον · Hellēsponton Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 37)
- Ἑλλήσποντον · Hellēsponton Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- Ἑλλήσποντον · Hellēsponton Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 142 (DIORISIS sentence 505)
- Ἑλλησπόντῳ · Hellēspontōi Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 179 (DIORISIS sentence 630)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἑλλήσποντος (scan p. 355; entry #2449).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἑλλήσποντος (scan p. 532; entry #1871).
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