1. Ὄλυμπος · Olympos — Chantraine
The corpus record
Ὄλυμπος
olumpos
Adjectif ὀλοφυδνός «gémissant», qualificatif de ἔπος (Hom
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Where it lives
- Theogony 16 · 23.23/10k
- Shield of Heracles 4 · 12.36/10k
- Iliad 81 · 7.26/10k
- Bacchae 4 · 5.32/10k
- Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
- Birds 4 · 3.75/10k
- Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 2 · 2.84/10k
- Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
- Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
- Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
- Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Ὄλυμπος · Olympos — Chantraine
3. Ὄλυμπος · Olympos — LSJ
Mount Olympus (in Thessaly, Hdt. 1.56, etc.), conceived to be the seat of the gods, Od. 6.42, but distd. from heaven (οὐρανός), Il. 15.192 sq., cf. 5.867 sq. ; οὐρανὸς Οὔ. τε 5.750 (but = οὐρανός, sky, Od. 20.103, cf. 113) ; Κρονίωνα θεῶν ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων ἀκροτάτῃ κορυφῇ πολυδειράδος Οὐ. Il. 5.754 ; ἑκάστῳ (sc. θεῶν) δώματα καλὰ τέτυκτο κατὰ πτύχας Οὐλύμποιο 11.77, cf. 18.186 : in Att. = οὐρανός, a form of oath, οὐ τὸν Ὄ. S. OT 1088 (lyr.), cf. Ant. 758.
of other mountains, as in Mysia, Hdt. 1.36, S. Fr. 522, X. Cyn. 11.1 ; in Laconia, Plb. 2.65.8 ; in Elis, Str. 8.3.31 ; in Lycia, Id. 14.3.8, cf. 14.5.7 ; in Cyprus, Id. 14.6.3.
Adv. Ὄλυμπόνδε, in Hom. always Οὔλυμπόνδε, Il. 1.221, al. :—to, towards Olympus, Pi. O. 3.36, etc. ; Οὐλυμπόθεν, from O., Id. P. 4.214.
In the wild
- Ὀλύμπου · Olympou Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 150
- Ὄλυμπος · Olympos Aristophanes, Birds 780 (DIORISIS sentence 591)
- Ὄλυμπον · Olympon Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 1005)
- Ὀλύμπῳ · Olympōi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 471)
- Ὀλύμπῳ · Olympōi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 498)
- Ὀλύμπου · Olympou Aristophanes, Clouds 270 (DIORISIS sentence 248)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ὄλυμπος (scan p. 812; entry #5890).
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