The corpus record

λέχος

lechos · τό

couch, bed

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Where it lives

Helen 18 · 18.4/10k
Trojan Women 7 · 9.89/10k
Trachiniae 6 · 8.26/10k
Orestes 8 · 8.16/10k
Electra 6 · 7.94/10k
Theogony 5 · 7.26/10k
Phoenissae 6 · 6.22/10k
Ion 5 · 5.47/10k
Antigone 4 · 5.45/10k
Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 4 · 4.48/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. λέχος · lechos — LSJ

couch, bed, bedstead

couch, bed, Il. 1.609, al.: in Hom. freq. in pl., bedstead, Il. 3.448, al.

2 bier

bier, usu. in pl., 24.589, 702, IG Rom. 4.507a25 (Pergam.), etc.

3 marriage-bed, marriage, marriage, spouse, spouse

marriage-bed: and generally, marriage, ἐμὸν λ. ἀντιόωσαν Il. 1.31; ὁμὸν λ. εἰσαναβαίνοι 8.291; λ. δʼ ᾔσχυνε καὶ εὐνὴν Ἡφαίστοιο ἄνακτος Od. 8.269, cf. 3.403; ἑτέρῳ λέχεϊ, i.e. in adultery, Pi. P. 11.24; ἰὼ λ. καὶ στίβοι φιλάνορες A. Ag. 411 (lyr.); τὸ σὸν λ. ξυνῆλθον S. Aj. 491; λ. Ἡρακλεῖ . . ξυστᾶσα Id. Tr. 27; κρύφιον ὡς ἔχοι λέχος ib. 360; λέχους γὰρ . . ἁγνὸν δέμας (sc. ἐστί) E. Hipp. 1003: freq. in pl., ἐκ λεχέων Pi. P. 9.37; λεχέων Διὸς εὐνάτειρα A. Pr. 895 (lyr.); τὰ νυμφικὰ λ. S. OT 124

4 nest

a birdʼs nest, A. Ag. 50 (anap.), S. Ant. 425.

2. λεχ-ώς · lech-ōs — LSJ

= λεχώ, dub. l. in LXX Ep.Je. 28.

In the wild

λέχει · lechei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1223–1225
λέχος · lechos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 410–411
λεχέων · lecheōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 40–54
λεχέων · lecheōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 894–896
λέχος · lechos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 554–560
λέχος · lechos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 651–654

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Where it came from

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