1. λόχμη · lochmē — Beekes
λόχμη ‘lair of wild beasts’. «VAR λόχος [m.] ‘ambush, childbed’, etc. =Aéyetat. λυγαῖος ‘dark’. -“ἠλύγη. — [Beekes, s.v. λόχμη, p. 921]
The corpus record
λόχμ-η
lochme
lair of wild beasts
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Where it lives
- Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
- Birds 4 · 3.75/10k
- Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
- Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
2. Λόχμη · Lochmē — Chantraine
2. Λόχμη f. «repaire d’une bête sauvage, le lieu où elle couche » (εἴ. Od. 19,439), aussi « fourré, taillis » (poètes, Arist., etc.), d'où λοχμαῖος «vivant dans un fourré », dit du rossignol (Ar. Ois. 737}, -106 id. (AP), -ὦδης «plante de fourrés» (Th., Thphr.); verbe dénominatif λοχμάζω «ombrager » (poésie tardive). Outre λέχος, λέκτρον «lit», on a essentiellement, dans ce groupe, λεχώ «accouchée », et autour de … — [Chantraine, s.v. Λόχμη, p. 651]
3. λόχμη · lochmē — Chantraine
λόχμη, λόχος, voir λέχεται, mais aussi Lamberterie, R. Ph. 1975, qui distingue deux mots λόχος. — [Chantraine, s.v. λόχμη, p. 665]
4. λόχμη · lochmē — Frisk
λόχμη f. “Wildlager’, λόχος m. “Hinterhalt, Kindbett’ usw. 5. λέχεται. — [Frisk, s.v. λόχμη, p. 1112]
5. λόχμ-η · lochm-ē — LSJ
thicket, copse, lair, in the coppice
thicket, copse, esp. as the lair of wild beasts, ἐν λόχμῃ πυκινῇ κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς Od. 19.439; λόχμας ὕπο κυανέας Pi. O. 6.40, cf. P. 4.244; ἐχῖνος ὥς τις ἐν λόχμῃ κεῖσαι πεσών S. Ichn. 121: in pl., λόχμαισι δοκεύσαις lying in wait in the coppice, Pi. O. 10(11).30; μασχάλαι λόχμης δασύτεραι Ar. Ec. 61, cf. Lys. 800: prov., μία λ. δύο ἐριθάκους οὐ τρέφει Sch. Ar. V. 922: also in Prose, Arist. HA 615a17, Ael. NA 13.14, Creophyl. ap. Ath. 8.361d; λόχμη τῶν θηρίων Jul. Mis. 338c.
In the wild
- λόχμην · lochmēn Aristophanes, Birds 265 (DIORISIS sentence 223)
- λόχμην · lochmēn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 193)
- λόχμην · lochmēn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 196)
- λόχμην · lochmēn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 201)
- λόχμης · lochmēs Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 60 (DIORISIS sentence 36)
- λόχμην · lochmēn Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1.800 (DIORISIS sentence 600)
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