The corpus record

λῐθοτομ-ία

lithotomia · ἡ

stone-quarry

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Where it lives

Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 2 · 10/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

λῐθοτομ-ία · lithotom-ia — LSJ

stone-quarry, quarries, marble quarries

stone-quarry, IG 2(2).1666B72: mostly in pl., quarries, Hdt. 2.8, Th. 7.86, 87, D. 53.17; marble quarries, Thphr. Lap. 6, Paus. 1.32.1 (sg. in 1.18.9, 1.19.6), etc.; cf. λατομία.

II cutting for the stone, lithotomy

cutting for the stone, lithotomy, Gal. 18(1).29, Paul.Aeg. 6.60.

In the wild

λιθοτομίας · lithotomias Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 17 (DIORISIS sentence 42)
λιθοτομίας · lithotomias Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 17 (DIORISIS sentence 42)
λιθοτομιέων · lithotomieōn Herodotus, Histories 2.124.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2438)
λιθοτομίαι · lithotomiai Herodotus, Histories 2.158.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2702)
λιθοτομιέων · lithotomieōn Herodotus, Histories 2.175.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2816)
λιθοτομίαι · lithotomiai Herodotus, Histories 2.8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1595)

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