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The corpus record

ἰός

ios2 · ὁ

poison, venom

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What it meant

ἰός · ios — LSJ

poison, venom

poison, as of serpents, A. Eu. 478, S. Tr. 771, E. Ion 1015, Plu. Vind. 2.562c, etc.; venom of a mad dog, Ruf. Fr. 118; ἰὸς ἀμεμφὴς μελισσῶν, of honey with which snakes fed Iamos, Pi. O. 6.47: metaph., of envy, A. Ag. 834. (Cf. Skt. viṣám ‘poison’, Lat. vīrus.)

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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