The corpus record

ἡσῠχ-αῖος

esuchaios

gentle, at rest, peace, tranquillity

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ἡσῠχ-αῖος · hēsych-aios — LSJ

gentle, at rest, peace, tranquillity

= ἥσυχος, βάσις S. OC 197 (lyr.); ἐλάσεις X. Eq. 9.6; gentle, Pl. Plt. 307a; of persons, E. Med. 808; at rest, of the embryo, Pl. Lg. 775c; τὸ ἡ. peace, tranquillity, S. Fr. 941.6; τὸ ἡ. ἀργόν E. Fr. 552.4: neut. as Adv., ἡσυχαῖον κράζειν, ᾄδειν, Thphr. Sign. 52, 53; λύχνος καιόμενος -αῖον prob. in ib. 54.

In the wild

ἡσυχαῖόν · hēsychaion Plato, Laws 775
ἡσυχαῖά · hēsychaia Plato, Statesman 307
ἁσυχαίᾳ · hasychaiai Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 197–198
ἡσυχαῖαι · hēsychaiai Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 9.6 (DIORISIS sentence 282)

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