Ἕλος

Where it lives

• Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
• Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
• History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ἕλος · Helos Iliad 2.584
• Ἕλος · Helos Iliad 2.594
• Ἕλος · Helos Thucydides, History 4.54.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2882)
• Ἕλος · Helos Xenophon, Hellenica 6.5.32 (DIORISIS sentence 2980)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἕλος (scan p. 462; entry #2034). Root candidates: *selos-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἕλος (scan p. 356; entry #2456).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἕλος (scan pp. 533-534; entry #1878).

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