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κέλευθος

keleuthos

road, path, course, journey

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Where it lives

Persians 4 · 7.86/10k
1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 4 · 3.86/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. κέλευθος · keleuthos — Beekes

κέλευθος [f.] ‘road, path, course, journey’ (IL, also IG 5(2), 3: 23 [Tegea IV*]). °VAR Also ntr.pl. -a. eCOMP Rarely as a first member, e.g. κελευθο-ποιός ‘making a path’ (A.), more often as a second member, e.g. ἱππο-κέλευθος “making the road on a chariot, chariotfighter’ (IL, of Patroclus); » ἀκόλουθος ‘following, attending’. *DER KeAevOere [f.] ‘goddess of the road’, epithet of Athena in Sparta (Paus. 3, 12, … — [Beekes, s.v. κέλευθος, p. 715]

2. κέλευθος · keleuthos — Chantraine

κέλευθος : f., au pl. τοι et parfois -ὰ n. {pour le féminin, cf. ὁδός et Schwyzer, Gr, Gr. 3,34, n. ®), «chemin, route, trajet, voyage » (Hom., poètes ; attesté aussi en arcadien, Schwyzer 654, 1ve 5. av.), Rare comme premier terme de composé, cf. κελευθο-ποιός «ouvrant la voie » (Æsch). Plus de 20 composés avec κέλευθος au second membre, la plupart tardivement attestés, cf, pourtant αἰψηρο-κέλευθος « qui s’élance … — [Chantraine, s.v. κέλευθος, p. 526]

3. κέλευθος · keleuthos — LSJ

road, path, the streets, paths, orbits, path, road

road, path, not common in lit. sense, πολλαὶ γὰρ ἀνὰ στρατόν εἰσι κέλευθοι Il. 10.66; Ἰσθμία κ. B. 17.17; ἐν κελεύθοις in the streets, A. Ch. 349 (lyr.); ἐγγὺς γὰρ νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματός εἰσι κέλευθοι Od. 10.86, cf. Parm. 1.11; ἀνέμων κέλευθα or κέλευθοι, Il. 14.17, Od. 5.383, etc.; ὑγρὰ, ἰχθυόεντα κ., of the sea, 3.71, 177; ἁλὸς βαθεῖαν (vel -είας) κ. Pi. P. 5.88; ἄρκτου στροφάδες κ. paths, orbits, S. Tr. 131 (lyr.), cf. E. Hel. 343 (lyr.); θεῶν δʼ ἀπόεικε κελεύθου withdraw from the path of the g

II journey, voyage, their onward way, journey

journey, voyage, by land or water, ὅς κέν τοι εἴπῃσιν ὁδὸν καὶ μέτρα κελεύθου Od. 4.389; οὐκ ἄν πω χάζοντο κελεύθου would not have halted from their onward way, Il. 11.504, cf. 12.262; πολλὰ κ. a far journey, i.e. a great distance, S. OC 164 (lyr.).

2 expedition

expedition, A. Ag. 127 (lyr.), Pers. 758 (troch.).

III way of going, walk, gait

way of going, walk, gait, μιμήσομαι λύκου κ. E. Rh. 212; διʼ ἀψόφου βαίνων κ. Id. Tr. 888.

IV way

metaph., way of life, ἀργαλέας βιότοιο κ. Emp. 115.8; κ. ἁπλόαι ζωᾶς Pi. N. 8.35; τὰν ἀνόστιμον βίου κ. E. HF 433 (lyr.).

In the wild

κέλευθος · keleuthos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 126–130
κελεύθοις · keleuthois Aeschylus, Agamemnon 423–426
κελεύθου · keleuthou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 908–909
κελεύθοις · keleuthois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 348–359
κελεύθου · keleuthou Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 710–711
κελεύθους · keleuthous Aeschylus, Persians 564–567

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κέλευθος (scan pp. 715-716; entry #3049).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κέλευθος (scan p. 526; entry #3808).

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