1. λοιμός · loimos — Beekes
The corpus record
λοιμός
loimos
plague
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Where it lives
- Proverbia 5 · 4.5/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- Regnorum I 6 · 3.24/10k
- Ezechiel 6 · 2.08/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Machabaeorum I 3 · 1.72/10k
- Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
- Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
- Meditations 3 · 1.03/10k
Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. λοιμός · loimos — Chantraine
3. λοιμός · loimos — Chantraine
4. λοιμός · loimos — Chantraine
5. λοιμός · loimos — Frisk
6. λοιμός · loimos — LSJ
plague, once in Hom. (Il. 1.61), cf. Hes. Op. 243, Hdt. 7.171; λοιμοῦ σκηπτός A. Pers. 715 (troch.); of the plague at Athens, Th. 2.47, 54, Pl. Smp. 201d: pl., ib. 188b, al.; coupled with λιμός, Hes. and Hdt. ll.cc., Th. 2.54, Orac. ap. Aeschin. 3.135.
of persons, plague, pest, D. 25.80.
as Adj., pestilent, LXX 1 Ki. 1.16; ἀνὴρ λ. καὶ πονηρός ib. 30.22, cf. Act.Ap. 24.5; λ. οἶνος Sm. Pr. 20.1.
In the wild
- λοιμοῦ · loimou Aeschylus, Persians 715
- λοιμὸς · loimos Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 656–660
- λοιμός · loimos Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton 1 80 (DIORISIS sentence 296)
- λοιμὸν · loimon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 947)
- λοιμῷ · loimōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 945)
- λοιμοῦ · loimou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 952)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λοιμός (scan pp. 916-917; entry #3795).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λοιμός (scan p. 663; entry #4893).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λοιμός (scan pp. 1106-1107; entry #3618).
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