The corpus record
Ἡφαιστίων
ephaistion
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
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
- Ἡφαιστίωνα · Hēphaistiōna Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3231)
- Ἡφαιστίωνα · Hēphaistiōna Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3910)
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.