The corpus record

μί-ασμα

miasma · τό

stain, defilement

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Where it lives

2 Peter 1 · 9.23/10k
Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 4 · 4.32/10k
Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Judith 3 · 3.42/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μί-ασμα · mi-asma — LSJ

stain, defilement, taint of guilt

stain, defilement, esp. by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, A. Eu. 169 (lyr.), 281, etc.; οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μ. Id. Th. 682; μ. φεύγων αἵματος E. Hipp. 35; μ. τῶν φυτευσάντων λαβεῖν S. OT 1012; οὐ προσῆκον μίασμα εἰς οἴκους εἰσάγεσθαι Antipho 4.1.3; μ. τινὸς ἐπεξέρχεσθαι Id. 4.3.6; τὸ μ. εἰς αὑτὸν δέχεσθαι Pl. Lg. 871b: in pl., A. Ag. 1420, Ch. 1017; αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα Id. Supp. 265, etc.

II that which defiles, pollution

that which defiles, pollution, of persons, χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων Id. Ag. 1645; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, Id. Ch. 1028: μ. χώρας ἐλαύνειν S. OT 97; ὡς μ. τοῦδʼ ἡμὶν ὄντος ib. 241: in Prose more generally, πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι Hp. Flat. 5.

In the wild

μιασμάτων · miasmatōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1419
μίασμα · miasma Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1643–1645
μίασμα · miasma Aeschylus, Eumenides 280–281
μιάσματι · miasmati Aeschylus, Eumenides 169–173
μιάσματα · miasmata Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1016–1017
μίασμα · miasma Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1026–1028

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