The corpus record

ἡμέρ-ιος

emerios

lasting but a day

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

lasting but a day, mortals

lasting but a day, γέννα, αἷμα, E. Ph. 130, 1512; οὔτε θεῶν γένος οὔθʼ ἁμερίων . . ἀνθρώπων S. Aj. 398, cf. Ant. 789; κάματος Hymn.Is. 87: abs., ἡμέριοι mortals, Orac. ap. D.S. 7.12, Opp. H. 2.669, AP 7.372 (Loll. Bass.); ἡ. μισθός PMasp. 164.6 (vi A.D.).

II daily

daily, κύκλος Ph. 1.92 (nisi leg. ἡμερ<ήσ>ιος).—Poet. Adj., for in X. Oec. 21.3 ἡμερινός should be read.

In the wild

ἁμερίων · hameriōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *)ifige/neia.1330 (DIORISIS sentence 793)
ἁμερίου · hameriou Euripides, Phoenissae *)/antigo/nh (DIORISIS sentence 870)
ἁμερίῳ · hameriōi Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 60)
ἁμερίων · hameriōn Sophocles, Ajax 397
ἁμερίων · hameriōn Sophocles, Antigone 786–789

Where it came from

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