The corpus record
Ἰώ
io
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 7 · 14.52/10k
- Prometheus Bound 5 · 8.5/10k
- Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
- On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
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
- Ἰοῦς · Ious Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 898–900
- Ἰοῖ · Ioi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 635–636
- Ἰοῦς · Ious Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 693–695
- Ἰοῖ · Ioi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 788–789
- Ἰοῖ · Ioi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 813–815
- Ἰοῦς · Ious Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 531–535
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἰώ (scan p. 655; entry #2783).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἰώ (scan p. 489; entry #3469).