Ἰαπετός

Where it lives

• Theogony 5 · 7.26/10k
• Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
• Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k

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

• Ἰαπετόν · Iapeton Theogony 132–136
• Ἰαπετὸς · Iapetos Theogony 507–508
• Ἰαπετοῖο · Iapetoio Theogony 565
• Ἰαπετοῖο · Iapetoio Theogony 746–749
• Ἰαπετόν · Iapeton Theogony 9–21
• Ἰαπετοῖο · Iapetoio Works and Days 50–52

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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. Ἰαπετός (scan pp. 620-621; entry #2661).

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