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Ἶσις

*isis · ἡ

Isis, plant, plaster

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Where it lives

Histories 9 · 0.49/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Ἶσις · Isis — LSJ

Isis, plant

Isis, Hdt. Il.cc., Call. Epigr. 58, Apollod. 2.1.3, Plu. Isid. 2.351f, POxy. 1380 (ii A.D.), etc.; Ἴσιδος τρίχες, name of a plant, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.939d, cf. Plin. HN 13.142.

II plaster

name of a plaster, Gal. 11.126,13.774.

III

Pythag. name for the δυάς, Theol.Ar. 12.

In the wild

Ἶσιν · Isin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 59)
Ἴσιος · Isios Herodotus, Histories 2.156.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2688)
Ἴσιος · Isios Herodotus, Histories 2.156.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2689)
Ἶσις · Isis Herodotus, Histories 2.156.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2690)
Ἴσιος · Isios Herodotus, Histories 2.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1825)
Ἴσιος · Isios Herodotus, Histories 2.41.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1826)

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