swift-footed
swift-footed, in Hom. always epith. of horses, Il. l.c., al., and so in Pi. Parth. 2.44; of the hare, Hes. Sc. 302; ἔλαφοι S. OC 1093 (lyr.); ἱππικῶν . . ὠκύπους ἀγών Id. El. 699; κύνες E. Hipp. 1129 (lyr.); of Hermes, Id. Hel. l.c.
The corpus record
ὠκύπους
okupous · ὁ
swift-footed
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 4 · 12.36/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
- Iliad 12 · 1.08/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὠκύπουν · ōkypoun Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 151)
- ὠκύποδας · ōkypodas Shield of Heracles 302–305
- ὠκυπόδεσσιν · ōkypodessin Shield of Heracles 469
- ὠκυπόδων · ōkypodōn Shield of Heracles 95
- ὠκυπόδων · ōkypodōn Shield of Heracles 96–100
- ὠκυπόδεσσι · ōkypodessi Works and Days 814–817
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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.