The corpus record

γάρος

garos · ὁ

sauce, paste, made of brine and small fish, fish

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 6 · 1.4/10k
Categories 1 · 1/10k
Metaphysics 7 · 0.89/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 4 · 0.71/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sauce, paste, made of brine and small fish, fish

a kind of sauce or paste, made of brine and small fish, τὸν ἰχθύων γ. A. Fr. 211; ταριχηρὸς γ. S. Fr. 606, cf. Cratin. 280, Pherecr. 173, Pl.Com. 198, Alciphr. 1.18; of the fish itself, Ruf. Podagr. 10 (Lat. version):—also γάρον, τό, Str. 3.4.6, and γάρος, ους, τό, POxy. 937.27 (iii A. D.).

In the wild

γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1386)
γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 58)
γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2600)
γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Metaphysics book 12 (DIORISIS sentence 3523)
γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Metaphysics book 12 (DIORISIS sentence 3248)
γάῤ · gar Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 811)

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Where it came from

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