The corpus record

γρύψ

grups · ὁ

griffin, Lämmergeier, tackle

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

γρύψ · gryps — LSJ

griffin

griffin, Aristeas ap. Hdt. 3.116, cf. 4.13, A. Pr. 804, IG 1(2).280.80; τράπεζα ἔχουσα πόδας ἀναγλύπτους γρῦπας SIG 996.10 (Smyrna).

II Lämmergeier

a bird, prob. the Lämmergeier, LXX Le. 11.13, De. 14.13.

III tackle, anchor

pl., part of a shipʼs tackle, or anchor, Hsch.

In the wild

γρῦπας · grypas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 803–806
γρῦπας · grypas Herodotus, Histories 4.13.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4183)
γρῦπας · grypas Herodotus, Histories 4.27.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4260)
γρῦπες · grypes Herodotus, Histories 4.79.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4566)
γρυπός · grypos Plotinus, Enneads 5.9 (DIORISIS sentence 4356)
γρυπὸς · grypos Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.4.21 (DIORISIS sentence 4578)

Where it came from

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