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ἰατρ-εῖον

iatreion · τό

surgery, as to need medical advice, remedy

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Where it lives

  • Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
  • Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
  • Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
  • Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
  • Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

surgery, as to need medical advice

surgery, Hp. Off. 2, Pl. R. 405a, Aeschin. 1.40, BGU 647.3 (ii A.D.); κατʼ ἰητρεῖον ἀνόσως διάγειν not to be so ill as to need medical advice, Hp. Epid. 1.1: metaph., ψυχῆς ἰ. D.S. 1.49.

2 remedy

remedy, Androm. ap. Gal. 13.832.

II doctorʼs fee, expense of a cure

pl., = ἴατρα 1, doctorʼs fee, expense of a cure, LXX Ex. 21.10, Poll. 4.177, 6.186.

2

= ἴατρα II, -εῖα θεοῖς ἐπηκόοις Roussel Cultes Égyptiens 94, al. (Delos, ii/i B.C.).

In the wild

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Where it came from

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