The corpus record
Μέμφις
memphis
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
- Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
- Histories 40 · 2.18/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- Jeremias 3 · 1.08/10k
- Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
- History 2 · 0.13/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
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
- Μέμφις · Memphis Aeschylus, Persians 967–972
- Μέμφιδος · Memphidos Aeschylus, Persians 34–40
- Μέμφιν · Memphin Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 311
- Μέμφει · Memphei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.8 (DIORISIS sentence 7666)
- Μέμφιν · Memphin Herodotus, Histories 2.10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1607)
- Μέμφι · Memphi Herodotus, Histories 2.112.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2311)
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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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