The corpus record

ὄχ-ησις

ochesis · ἡ

a being carried

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant — LSJ

a being carried, riding, the weight is thrown

a being carried, Pl. Ti. 89a (pl.), Arist. Ph. 243a17; ἵππων ὀχήσεις riding, Pl. R. 452c, cf. Phld. Rh. 2.197 S.; τὴν ὄχησιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ποιεῖσθαι, = ὀχεῖσθαι, Str. 1.3.12; ἡ ὄ. πλείστη ἐπὶ τοῦ ὑγιέος σκέλεος, of lame people, the weight is thrown on the good leg, in walking, Hp. Art. 52.

In the wild

ὀχήσεις · ochēseis Plato, Timaeus 89 (DIORISIS sentence 855)

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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