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Ἰλιάς

*ilias · ἡ

Troy, the Troad

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ἰλιάς · Ilias — LSJ

pecul. fem. of Ἰλιακός, χώρη Hdt. 5.94, cf. A. Ag. 453 (lyr.), E. Hec. 102 (anap.), 923 (lyr.), etc.; epith. of Athena, Hdt. 7.43, IG 9(1).350 (ii B.C.).

II

as Subst.,

1 Troy, the Troad

(sc. γῆ) Troy, the Troad, Hdt. 5.122.

2 a Trojan woman

(sc. γυνή) a Trojan woman, E. Hel. 1114 (lyr.), Tr. 245 (lyr.), etc.

3 the Iliad, an endless string

(sc. ποίησις) the Iliad of Homer, Hdt. 2.116, Arist. Po. 1448b38, al.: prov., κακῶν Ἰλιάς, i.e. an endless string of woes, D. 19.148, D.S. 36.6, etc.

III thrush, the redwing, Turdus iliacus

a kind of thrush, perh. the redwing, Turdus iliacus, Arist. HA 617a21 (s.v.l.); cf. ἰλλάς III.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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