The corpus record

κᾰθαρμός

katharmos · ὁ

cleansing, purification

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Where it lives

On the Sacred Disease 8 · 17.43/10k
Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Sophist 4 · 2.5/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Laws 13 · 1.26/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κᾰθαρμός · katharmos — LSJ

cleansing, purification, purificatory offering, atonement, expiation, an offering to avert, lustrum

cleansing, purification, from guilt, νίψαι καθαρμῷ τήνδε τὴν στέγην S. OT 1228: hence, purificatory offering, atonement, expiation, καθαρμὸν τῆς χώρης ποιέεσθαί τινα Hdt. 7.197: freq. in pl., μύσος ἐλαύνειν καθαρμοῖς A. Ch. 968 (lyr., dub. l.), cf. Th. 738, Eu. 277, 283, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.156 (Cyrene): sg., S. OT 99; θοῦ νῦν καθαρμὸν δαιμόνων make an offering to avert their wrath, Id. OC 466; καθαρμὸν θύειν E. IT 1332; λύσεις τε καὶ καθαρμοὶ ἀδικημάτων Pl. R. 364e; ὁ περὶ τὴν διάνοιαν κ. Id. Sph.

2 purificatory rite

purificatory rite of initiation into mysteries, Pl. Phd. 69c, Phdr. 244e; ἀνιστὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ καθαρμοῦ D. 18.259, cf. Plu. Aud. 2.47a: hence in pl., as title of poem by Empedocles, Ath. 14.620d; by Epimenides, Suid. s.h.v.

3 purgation

purgation by ordeal, PMag.Lond. 46.180,196.

II purging, evacuation, discharge

purging, evacuation, discharge, Arist. HA 587b1, Plu. Sanit. 2.134d.

2 purge, clearance

metaph., purge, clearance of unhealthy animals, Pl. Lg. 735b.

III

= κάθαρμα I.2, Plu. Curios. 2.518b.

In the wild

καθαρμούς · katharmous Aeschylus, Eumenides 276–277
καθαρμοῖς · katharmois Aeschylus, Eumenides 282–283
καθαρμός · katharmos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1059
καθαρμοῖσιν · katharmoisin Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 965–968
καθαρμοὺς · katharmous Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 734–738
καθαρμοῦ · katharmou Demosthenes, On the Crown 258 (DIORISIS sentence 763)

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