The corpus record

κατάσκοπ-ος

kataskopos · ὁ

one who reconnoitres, scout, spy

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Where it lives

Rhesus 9 · 16.74/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 4 · 6.95/10k
Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Genesis 6 · 2/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Discourses 10 · 1.35/10k
Histories 22 · 1.2/10k
Cyropaedia 5 · 0.63/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k

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

What it meant

κατάσκοπ-ος · kataskop-os — LSJ

one who reconnoitres, scout, spy

one who reconnoitres, scout, spy, Hdt. 1.100, 112, al.; κατάσκοπον πολεμίων πέμπειν E. Rh. 125; πεμφθεὶς Ἰλίου κ. ib. 505, cf. Hec. 239, Th. 6.63; τριήρεις πέμψαι κ. Plu. Lys. 10; τῶν λόγων κ. Ar. Th. 588, cf. X. Cyr. 6.1.31; πραγμάτων Men. Pk. 105.

2 examiner, inspector

examiner, inspector, Th. 4.27, cf. 8.41; τῆς προσόδου ἐκ σίτου Fouilles de lʼInstitut Français dʼArch. Orientale du Caire 4(2). p.74: metaph., κ. βίου Secund. Sent. 7.

II closely covered

κατάσκοπος, ον, closely covered, Sch. Opp. H. 3.636 (sed leg. -σκεπος).

In the wild

κατασκόπους · kataskopous Aristotle, Politics 1313b (DIORISIS sentence 2173)
κατασκόπων · kataskopōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
κατασκόπου · kataskopou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4816)
κατάσκοποι · kataskopoi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4831)
κατάσκοπος · kataskopos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5002)
κατάσκοπος · kataskopos Epictetus, Discourses 1.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1220)

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Where it came from

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