Ὄλπη

Where it lives

• History 8 · 0.53/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ὄλπας · Olpas Thucydides, History 3.105.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2450)
• Ὄλπας · Olpas Thucydides, History 3.105.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2454)
• Ὄλπαις · Olpais Thucydides, History 3.106.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2455)
• Ὄλπαις · Olpais Thucydides, History 3.106.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2458)
• Ὄλπας · Olpas Thucydides, History 3.107.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2461)
• Ὄλπας · Olpas Thucydides, History 3.108.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2473)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ὄλπη (scan p. 1124; entry #4534).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ὄλπη (scan p. 812; entry #5892).

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