The corpus record

λῐθοτόμ-ος

lithotomos

for cutting stones

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Where it lives

Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

λῐθοτόμ-ος · lithotom-os — LSJ

for cutting stones, quarryman, mason

for cutting stones, ὄργανα Agath. 1.10: Subst. λ., ὁ, prob. for λιθοδόμος in X. Cyr. 3.2.11; quarryman, IG 1(2).347.36, 2(2).1680.4; mason, Gal. Thras. 43, PAmh. 2.76.9 (ii/iii A.D.).

II surgeon who cuts for the stone, who cuts the stone

Subst., λ., ὁ, surgeon who cuts for the stone, Gal. 1.125, Thras. 24; but, who cuts the stone (internally), Ammonius ὁ λ. Cels. 7.26.3.

b knife for cutting for the stone

λ., τό, knife for cutting for the stone, Paul.Aeg. 6.60.

In the wild

λιθοτόμος · lithotomos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2534)
λιθοτόμοι · lithotomoi Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1424)

Where it came from

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