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λωίων

loion

Sémon

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Where it lives

Works and Days 4 · 6.94/10k
Ways and Means 2 · 5.23/10k
Hippias Minor 2 · 4.59/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. λωΐων · lōiōn — Chantraine

λωΐων : Sémon. 7,30, att. λῴων avec le gén. λῴονος, dat. t- (S.), acc. sg. f. du thème en s alternant A6o (S., PL), pl λῴους (S.) ; le neutre λώιον est attesté dans 1᾽1].. att. λῷον : cette forme usuelle a entraîné au pluriel ἢ. thémat. λῴϊα (Thgn., Théoc.) avec le génitif τῶν λῴων (Ghalcis, r1° 8. après) ; m. λῴος (Hdn. Gr. 1,122) ; il a été créé un doublet λωίτερον (04. 1,376, 2,141), masc. chez A.R., etc., f. … — [Chantraine, s.v. λωΐων, p. 671]

2. λωΐων · lōiōn — Frisk

λωΐων (Semon. 7, 30), att. λῴων; ntr. λώϊον (ep. seit Il.), att. λῷον, wozu der Plur. λώϊα, Ada (Thgn., Theok.) m. dem Gen. τῶν λῴων (Chalkis IIP), auch Sing. m. λῷος (Han. Gr.); dazu λωΐτερον (Od.),,-eoos (A. R.), -ἔρη (Kall., AP) "vorzüglich(er), zuträglich(er), erwünscht, besser’; Superl. λῷστος (Thgn., Trag.), ᾧ λῷστε (Pl. u.a.); Einzelheiten bei v. Wilamowitz Eur. Her. v. 196, Seiler Steigerungsformen 88ff. Das … — [Frisk, s.v. λωΐων, p. 1124]

3. λωΐων · lōiōn — LSJ

more desirable, more agreeable, better

more desirable, more agreeable, better, Hom. only in neut., πολὺ λώϊόν ἐστι, τόδε λ. ἐστι, Il. 1.229, Od. 2.169, al.; τῷ σε χρὴ δόμεναι καὶ λώϊον ἠέ περ ἄλλοι σίτου 17.417: as Adv., γνωσόμεθʼ ἀλλήλων καὶ λώϊον 23.109; μετρεῖσθαι Hes. Op. 350; but οὐκ . . ἄλλη τῆσδε λωΐων γυνή Semon. 7.30: also Comp. λωΐτερος, α, ον, also used by Hom. only in neut., λωΐτερον καὶ ἄμεινον Od. 1.376, 2.141: masc. in A.R. 3.850, etc.: fem. in Call. Aet. 4.1.7 [Fr. 112.7 Pf.], AP 5.111.6 (Phld.).—In Trag. λῴων was use

II my good friend

Sup. λῷστος, η, ον, Thgn. 255; λῷστον δὲ τὸ ζῆν ἄνοσον S. Fr. 356; τὰ λῷστα βουλεύων A. Pr. 206, etc.; παραινέσαι τὰ λ. ib. 310; τὰ λ. λέγειν Id. Ag. 1053, cf. Cratin. 4 D.; ὦ λῷστε Πῶλε my good friend, like ὦ βέλτιστε, Pl. Grg. 467b, cf. X. Smp. 4.1, etc.

In the wild

λῷον · lōion Aeschylus, Persians 523–526
λῷον · lōion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 464)
λώϊον · lōion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 647)
λῷον · lōion Euripides, Heracles 856
λώιον · lōion Herodotus, Histories 1.85.2 (DIORISIS sentence 595)
λώιον · lōion Works and Days 349–351

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λωίων (scan p. 671; entry #4958).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λωίων (scan p. 1124; entry #3657).

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