Γύγης

Where it lives

• Histories 24 · 1.31/10k
• Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
• Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Γύγεω · Gygeō Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
• Γύγεα · Gygea Herodotus, Histories 1.10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 68)
• Γύγης · Gygēs Herodotus, Histories 1.10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 70)
• Γύγεα · Gygea Herodotus, Histories 1.11.1 (DIORISIS sentence 75)
• Γύγης · Gygēs Herodotus, Histories 1.11.2 (DIORISIS sentence 78)
• Γύγη · Gygē Herodotus, Histories 1.11.2 (DIORISIS sentence 79)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Γύγης (scan p. 337; entry #1512).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Γύγης (scan p. 253; entry #1745).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Γύγης (scan p. 363; entry #1372).

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