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Ὀλύμπιος

olumpios

Olympian, of Olympus, dwelling on Olympus

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Where it lives

Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
Theogony 3 · 4.36/10k
Clouds 2 · 2.08/10k
Iliad 22 · 1.97/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Odyssey 9 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ὀλύμπιος · Olympios — LSJ

Olympian, of Olympus, dwelling on Olympus, of Olympus

Olympian, of Olympus, dwelling on Olympus, epith. of the gods above, Il. 1.399, 20.47 ; οἱ Ὀ. Men. Sam. 187 ; esp. of Zeus, who is called simply Ὀλύμπιος in Il. 18.79, 22.130, al., Hes. Op. 474, etc. ; so Ζεὺς πατὴρ Ὀ. S. Tr. 275 : in Prose, ὁ Ζεὺς ὁ Ὀ. Th. 2.15, IG 1(2).39.35, 22.112.7 ; μὰ τὸν Δία τὸν Ὀ. Ar. Nu. 817 ; Ζεὺς ὁ Ὀ. Th. 3.14 ; ὁ Ὀ. Ζεύς Pl. R. 583b ; τοι Δι Ὀλυνπιοι SIG 9.6 (Elis, vi B. C.) ; Ὀ. ἀστήρ Opp. H. 4.315 ; ἕδρη IG 9(1).882.1 (Corc.) : applied by Com. to Pericles, Ar. Ach

In the wild

Ὀλυμπίου · Olympiou Aeschylus, Eumenides 663–666
Ὀλύμπιον · Olympion Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 645)
Ὀλύμπιον · Olympion Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 646)
Ὀλυμπίου · Olympiou Aristotle, Politics 1313b (DIORISIS sentence 2176)
Ὀλύμπιοι · Olympioi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
Ὀλύμπιον · Olympion Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 121 (DIORISIS sentence 418)

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