The corpus record

κεντρ-όω

kentroo

furnish with a sting

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Where it lives

Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

κεντρ-όω · kentr-oō — LSJ

furnish with a sting, to be so furnished

furnish with a sting:—Pass., to be so furnished, Pl. R. 552d, 555d.

2 strike with a goad, spur on

strike with a goad, Hdt. 3.16 (cf. κεντόω): metaph., spur on, κεκεντρωμένος εἰς λόγους Aristid. Or. 50(26).26.

II occupy a cardinal point

Pass., Astron., occupy a cardinal point, Ptol. Tetr. 153, Man. 1.90.

In the wild

κέντρου · kentrou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4004)
κέντρου · kentrou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6506)
κέντρου · kentrou Plato, Laws 893
κεκεντρωμένων · kekentrōmenōn Plato, Republic 8.552 (DIORISIS sentence 4903)
κεκεντρωμένοι · kekentrōmenoi Plato, Republic 8.555 (DIORISIS sentence 4974)
κέντρου · kentrou Septuaginta, Siracides 38

Where it came from

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