1. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Beekes
The corpus record
λίσσομαι
lissomai
to beg, pray, implore
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Where it lives
- Iliad 42 · 3.77/10k
- Odyssey 27 · 3.11/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Chantraine
3. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Chantraine
4. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Chantraine
5. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Frisk
6. λίσσομαι · lissomai — Frisk
7. λίσσομαι · lissomai — LSJ
beg, pray, either abs. or c. acc. pers., λισσομένη προσέειπε Δία Il. 1.502; εὐχωλῇσι λιτῇσί τε ἔθνεα νεκρῶν ἐλλισάμην Od. 11.35, etc.; the thing by which one prays is found with ὑπέρ, λ. ὑπὲρ τοκέων, ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς καὶ γούνων, Il. 15.660, 22.338; λ. τινὰ ὑπὲρ πατρὸς καὶ μητέρος 24.467: or simply in gen., λ. Ζηνὸς ἠδὲ Θέμιστος Od. 2.68; λ. τινὰ γούνων Il. 9.451, Od. 22.337 (for which in Il. 6.45 we have λαβὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων, cf. Od. 6.142; τῆ ἑτέρῃ μὲν ἑλὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων Il. 21.71; ἥπτετο χείρε
c. acc. rei, beg or pray for, οἷ αὐτῷ θάνατον καὶ κῆρα λιτέσθαι Il. 16.47: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, ταῦτα μὲν οὐχ ὑμέας ἔτι λίσσομαι this I beg of you no more, Od. 2.210, cf. 4.347.
in Hom. freq. c. dat. modi, ἐπέεσσι Il. 21.98, al.; εὐχῇσι Od. 10.526; εὐχωλῆσι λιτῆσί τε ἐλλισάμην 11.35.—Rare in Prose, as Hdt. 1.24, LXX Jb. 17.2, Luc. Syr.D. 18; in Pl. R. 366a there is a ref. to Il. 9.501. [The λ- freq. makes position in Ep., Il. 1.394, al.; written λλ after the augm., v. supr.]
In the wild
- λίσσομαι · lissomai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 748
- λίσσομαί · lissomai Aristophanes, Peace 1 (DIORISIS sentence 298)
- λιτόμεθα · litometha Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 297)
- λισσόμεσθά · lissomestha Euripides, Bacchae 1344
- λίσσομαι · lissomai Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 642)
- λίσσομαί · lissomai Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 624)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λίσσομαι (scan pp. 913-914; entry #3785). Root candidates: *leit-, *lejt-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λίσσομαι (scan p. 661; entry #4873).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λίσσομαι (scan p. 1102; entry #3602).
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