The corpus record

μεθύστερος

methusteros

living after

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

What it meant

μεθύστερος · methysteros — LSJ

living after, for posterity, after

living after, καλόν τʼ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ λέγειν μεθυστέροις for posterity, A. Th. 581; μεθυστέρῳ ἐν χρόνῳ in after time, Cratin. 119.

II afterwards, so long after, so late, in a moment, too late, hereafter

neut. as Adv., of time, afterwards, ἔπειτα μ. h.Cer. 205; so long after, so late, A. Ch. 516; οὐ μ. in a moment, Id. Ag. 425 (lyr.); too late, S. Tr. 710; τὸ μ. hereafter, Id. Ph. 1133 (lyr.), Porph. Abst. 4.2.

In the wild

μεθύστερον · methysteron Aeschylus, Agamemnon 423–426
μεθύστερον · methysteron Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 514–516
μεθύστερον · methysteron Aeschylus, Persians 207–208
μεθυστέροις · methysterois Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 580–583
μεθύστερον · methysteron Sophocles, Philoctetes 1128–1139
μεθύστερον · methysteron Sophocles, Trachiniae 710–711

Where it came from

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