The corpus record

λει-ότης

leiotes · ἡ

smoothness

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Timaeus 3 · 1.27/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k

What it meant

λει-ότης · lei-otēs — LSJ

smoothness

smoothness, opp. τραχύτης, σπλάγχνων A. Pr. 493; χαλινοῦ X. Eq. 10.6 sq.; κατόπτρων Pl. Ti. 46c; of the skin, Id. Grg. 465b: in pl., Id. Ti. 65c, Arist. PA 648b6.

of the voice or pronunciation, [φωνῆς] Id. GA 786b10, Demetr. Eloc. 299; λ. ὀνομάτων D.H. Vett.Cens. 2.2; τῇ λ. δουλεύειν, of Isocrates, Phld. Rh. 1.199 S. = D.H. Isoc. 13.

In the wild

λειότητα · leiotēta Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 493–495
λειότητος · leiotētos Aristotle, Metaphysics book 5 (DIORISIS sentence 1271)
λειότητι · leiotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 8 (DIORISIS sentence 2157)
λειότητι · leiotēti Plato, Gorgias 465
λειότητα · leiotēta Plato, Phaedo 110 (DIORISIS sentence 1136)
λειότητα · leiotēta Plato, Timaeus 46 (DIORISIS sentence 338)

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Where it came from

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