The corpus record

ἐμβολ-εύς

emboleus · ὁ

anything put in

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Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Hellenica 5 · 0.76/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐμβολ-εύς · embol-eus — LSJ

anything put in, piston, peg, dibble, stick for setting plants

anything put in: piston, Hero Spir. 1.28, cf. Hsch. s.v. κίουρος; peg, Anthem. pp. 151, 152 W.; dibble or stick for setting plants, AP 6.21.6.

II model

model (usu. wooden) for metal fittings or stone-work, Ph. Bel. 70.13, Hero Bel. 96.5.

In the wild

ἐμβολῆς · embolēs Aeschylus, Persians 409–411
ἐμβολῆς · embolēs Aristotle, Politics 1269b (DIORISIS sentence 675)
ἐμβολῆς · embolēs Herodotus, Histories 1.191.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1341)
ἐμβολῆς · embolēs Septuaginta, Machabaeourum III 4
ἐμβολῆς · embolēs Thucydides, History 2.76.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1496)
ἐμβολῇ · embolēi Xenophon, Hellenica 4.3.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1445)

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Where it came from

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