The corpus record

Καλλῐόπη

*kalliope · ἡ

Calliope, the beautiful-voiced

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Where it lives

Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Calliope, the beautiful-voiced, Muse

Calliope, the beautiful-voiced, name of the Epic Muse, Hes. Th. 79, h.Hom. 31.2, Sapph. 82, etc.; ἡμετέρη Κ. my Muse, Call. Aet. 3.1.77 [Fr. 75.77 Pf.]:—also Καλλιόπεια, AP 4.3b.61 (Agath.): as Adj., κούρᾳ καλλιόπᾳ, of Echo, Theoc. Syrinx 19.

In the wild

Καλλιόπης · Kalliopēs Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
Καλλιόπη · Kalliopē Theogony 75–78
Καλλιόπῃ · Kalliopēi Plato, Phaedrus 259 (DIORISIS sentence 568)

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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