The corpus record
Μῆδος
medos
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 80 · 10.14/10k
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
- Histories 70 · 3.81/10k
- Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
- History 29 · 1.94/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 2 · 1.9/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
- Anabasis 3 · 0.53/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.
In the wild
- Μήδους · Mēdous Aeschylus, Persians 236
- Μῆδος · Mēdos Aeschylus, Persians 765
- Μήδους · Mēdous Aristotle, Politics 1284a (DIORISIS sentence 1232)
- Μήδοις · Mēdois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1080)
- Μῆδοι · Mēdoi Herodotus, Histories 1.104.2 (DIORISIS sentence 749)
- Μῆδοι · Mēdoi Herodotus, Histories 1.106.2 (DIORISIS sentence 760)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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