watching by day, day-watcher
watching by day, φύλαξ Ar. Av. 1174: as Subst., day-watcher, Hdt. 7.183, 192, S. Ant. 253, X. HG 1.1.2, Aen. Tact. 6.1, al.: metaph., πιστὸν ἡ. ὀφθαλμὸν ἕξω A. Th. 66.
The corpus record
ἡμεροσκόπ-ος
emeroskopos
watching by day
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Where it lives
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἡμεροσκόπον · hēmeroskopon Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 66–68
- ἡμεροσκόποι · hēmeroskopoi Herodotus, Histories 7.192.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8183)
- ἡμεροσκόποι · hēmeroskopoi Herodotus, Histories 7.219.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8330)
- ἡμεροσκόπος · hēmeroskopos Sophocles, Antigone 253–254
- ἡμεροσκόπος · hēmeroskopos Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.