The corpus record

λιτή

lite · ἡ

prayer, entreaty

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 5 · 9.93/10k
Suppliant Maidens 4 · 8.3/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 4 · 3.86/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

λῐτή · litē — LSJ

prayer, entreaty, with prayers, prayers to, prayers for

prayer, entreaty, mostly in pl., λιτῇσι ἐλλισάμην Od. 11.34; καταβαίνειν ἐς λιτάς Hdt. 1.116; λιταῖς ἀποτρέπει [αὐτὸν] μὴ πορεύεσθαι ib. 105; λιταῖς πεῖσαί τινα Pi. O. 2.80, cf. 8.8; μαλθάσσειν κέαρ λιταῖς A. Pr. 1008; ηὔχετο λιταῖσι Id. Pers. 499; λιτᾶν ἀκούειν Id. Ag. 396 (lyr.); λιτὰς κλύειν Id. Th. 172 (lyr.), cf. E. Or. 1233, etc.; λιταῖς σεβίζειν S. OC 1557 (lyr.); ἐπεύχεσθαι λιτάς ib. 484; λ. δέχεσθαι Id. Ant. 1019; ἐν λιταῖς στέλλειν with prayers, Id. Ph. 60; λιταὶ θεῶν prayers to the go

II Prayers of sorrow and repentance

Λιταί, αἱ, personified, Prayers of sorrow and repentance, Il. 9.502 sq., AP 11.361 (Autom.).

In the wild

λιτᾶν · litan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 396
λιτὰς · litas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 228–230
λιταῖσι · litaisi Aeschylus, Persians 497–499
λιταῖς · litais Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1008
λιταῖσί · litaisi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 142–144
λιτάς · litas Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 214–215

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