The corpus record

γᾰλᾰθηνός

galathenos

sucking, young, tender

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Where it lives

Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sucking, young, tender

sucking, young, tender, νεβροί Od. 4.336, cf. Anacr. 51; τέκος Simon. 52; ἄρνες Theoc. 18.41, J. AJ 6.2.2; γαλαθηνά (sc. πρόβατα) Hdt. 1.183; (sc. χοιρία) opp. τέλεια, Pherecr. 44, cf. Hp. Aff. 43, SIG 1015.32 (Halic., written γαλαθεινός) ; ἀρνῶν καὶ χοίρων Crates Com. 1; ὗς Pherecr. 28, cf. Arist. HA 603b25; βρέφη Clearch. 17, cf. Theoc. 24.31. (γάλα, θῆσθαι.)

In the wild

γαλαθηνοῖς · galathēnois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7173)
γαλαθηνὰ · galathēna Herodotus, Histories 1.183.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1291)
γαλαθηνοὺς · galathēnous Odyssey 17.127
γαλαθηνοὺς · galathēnous Odyssey 4.336
γαλαθηνά · galathēna Septuaginta, Amos 6
γαλαθηνὸν · galathēnon Septuaginta, Regnorum I 7 (DIORISIS sentence 130)

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Where it came from

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