The corpus record

νέρτερος

nerteros

lower, nether

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Where it lives

Orestes 6 · 6.12/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Heracles 3 · 3.83/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k

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

What it meant

νέρτερος · nerteros — LSJ

lower, nether

= ἐνέρτερος, lower, nether, Comp. without Posit. in use (cf. νέρθε, ἔνερθε), νερτέρᾳ προσήμενος κώπῃ A. Ag. 1617; τὰ δʼ ὑπέρτερα νέρτερα θήσει Ar. Lys. 772.

2 belonging to the lower world, the dead, below

mostly as Posit., belonging to the lower world, ἡ ν. θεός S. OC 1548; ν. θεοί A. Pers. 622, S. Ant. 602 (lyr.), etc.; νέρτεροι alone, the dead, A. Pers. 619, etc.; ν. πλάκες, χθών, δώματα, the world below, S. OC 1576 (lyr.), E. Alc. 47 (s.v.l.), 1073; ν. κώπα, of Charon’s boat, ib. 459 (lyr.).

In the wild

νερτέρᾳ · nerterai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1617–1618
νερτέροις · nerterois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 14–15
νερτέρων · nerterōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 405–408
νερτέρων · nerterōn Aeschylus, Persians 616–622
νερτέροις · nerterois Aeschylus, Persians 616–622
νέρτερα · nertera Aristophanes, Lysistrata 770 (DIORISIS sentence 589)

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Where it came from

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