The corpus record

γαληνός

galenos

calm, a calm, gentle

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Where it lives

Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

calm, a calm, gentle

calm, esp. of the sea, γαλήνʼ ὁρῶ (neut. pl.) I see a calm, E. Or. 279; of persons, gentle, Id. IT 345; γ. προσφθέγματα Id. Hec. 1160; γαληνὴ ἕξις μετώπου Arist. Phgn. 812a1; βίος Pl. Ax. 370d, Ph. 1.411; τὸ γ. Them. Or. 34p.459D.; as title, γαληνότατος δεσπότης PGrenf. 1.60.16 (vi A. D.). Adv. -νῶς D.L. 9.45: Comp. -νότερον J. BJ 1.28.2.

In the wild

γαληνὸς · galēnos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8236)
γαληνῶς · galēnōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 8003)
γαληνῶν · galēnōn Euripides, Hecuba *polumh/stwr.1160 (DIORISIS sentence 656)
γαληνὸς · galēnos Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 147)
γαληνότερον · galēnoteron Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.75.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1151)
γαληνὸν · galēnon Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 13

Where it came from

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