Ὄλυνθος

Where it lives

• First Olynthiac 3 · 16.47/10k
• Third Philippic 4 · 9.39/10k
• On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
• First Philippic 1 · 3.05/10k
• On the Chersonese 1 · 2.37/10k
• Fourth Philippic 1 · 2.26/10k
• Against Midias 2 · 1.33/10k
• On the False Embassy 3 · 1.3/10k
• Against Neaera 1 · 1.1/10k
• Hellenica 7 · 1.06/10k
• History 10 · 0.67/10k
• On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

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

• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, Against Midias 161 (DIORISIS sentence 504)
• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, Against Midias 197 (DIORISIS sentence 631)
• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, Against Neaera Speaker.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8)
• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 12 (DIORISIS sentence 28)
• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 18 (DIORISIS sentence 45)
• Ὄλυνθον · Olynthon Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 18 (DIORISIS sentence 46)

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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. Ὄλυνθος (scan p. 1125; entry #4536).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ὄλυνθος (scan p. 813; entry #5895).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ὄλυνθος (scan p. 1355; entry #4246).

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