The corpus record

ἡμίθεος

emitheos · ὁ

demigod, five

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Where it lives

Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ἡμί-θεος · hēmi-theos — LSJ

demigod

demigod, ἀνδρῶν ἡρώων θεῖον γένος, οἳ καλέονται ἡμίθεοι Hes. Op. 160, cf. h.Hom. 31.19, 32.19, Pi. P. 4.184, Pl. Ap. 28c, Isoc. 9.70, etc.; once in Hom. (if genuine), ἡμιθέων γένος ἀνδρῶν Il. 12.23.

II five

Pythag. name for five, Theol.Ar. 32.

In the wild

ἡμιθέων · hēmitheōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἡμιθέων · hēmitheōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1 (DIORISIS sentence 71)
ἡμίθεοι · hēmitheoi Works and Days 156–160
ἡμιθέων · hēmitheōn Iliad 12.23
ἡμιθέων · hēmitheōn Plato, Apology 28
ἡμιθέων · hēmitheōn Plato, Apology 41

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Where it came from

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