The corpus record

μολπή

molpe · ἡ

dance, rhythmic movement with song, song

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Where it lives

Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Frogs 3 · 3.29/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μολπ-ή · molp-ē — LSJ

dance, rhythmic movement with song

dance or rhythmic movement with song, Od. 6.101, Il. 18.606.

2 song, the note

more freq. song, 1.472; μολπῆς τε γλυκερῆς καὶ ἀμύμονος ὀρχηθμοῖο 13.637; μολπή τʼ ὀρχηστύς τε Od. 1.152, cf. Hes. Th. 69, Sapph. 96.5 L.-P., Pi. O. 10.84, 6.97 (pl.), A. Ag. 106 (lyr.), etc.: Com. in lyr., μολπὰ κλαγγά Mnesim. 4.57 (anap.): metaph., οὐ μ. σύριγγος ἔχων the note, S. Ph. 212 (lyr.): also in late Prose, as Luc. Salt. 23.

In the wild

μολπᾶν · molpan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 105–107
μολπαῖς · molpais Aeschylus, Eumenides 1043
μολπαῖς · molpais Aeschylus, Eumenides 1047
μολπαῖσιν · molpaisin Aristophanes, Frogs 1524–1527
μολπὴν · molpēn Aristophanes, Frogs 370–371
μολπαῖς · molpais Aristophanes, Frogs 384–385

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Where it came from

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