1. ὤν-ησις · ōn-ēsis — LSJ
buying
buying, Decr.Att. ap. Poll. 7.15, prob. in CIG 3597b (Ilium).
The corpus record
ὄνησις
onesis · ἡ
buying
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Where it lives
- The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
- Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
- Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
- On the Crown 2 · 1.03/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὄνησις · onēsis — LSJ
use, profit, advantage, a delight, advantage, enjoyment of, profit, delight from
use, profit, advantage, Od. 21.402 ; ὄ. τισί [ἐστί] τι S. Ant. 616 (lyr.) ; ἐπʼ ὄνασιν ἐμοί for a delight to me, Alc. 46 (v.l. ἐπόνασιν) ; εἰς ὄ. ἀνθρώπων S. Aj. 400 (lyr.) ; ὄνησιν ἔχειν bring advantage, E. Med. 618, etc. : c. gen., enjoyment of a thing, profit or delight from it, A. Ag. 350, E. Hec. 1231 ; ὄνησιν ἔχειν τινός Pl. Sph. 230d ; ἀπὸ [τῶν βιβλίων] ὄ. ἕξεις POxy. 531.12 (ii A. D.) ; ὄ. εὑρεῖν ἀπό τινος S. El. 1061 (lyr.) ; οὐδέ σφιν ἀρχῆς τῆσδε . . ὄ. ἥξει Id. OC 452 ; γένοιτό σοι τέ
In the wild
- ὄνησιν · onēsin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 350
- ὄνησιν · onēsin Demosthenes, On the Crown 242 (DIORISIS sentence 703)
- ὄνησιν · onēsin Demosthenes, On the Crown 308 (DIORISIS sentence 914)
- ὀνήσεις · onēseis Demosthenes, The Funeral Speech 51-61 14 (DIORISIS sentence 34)
- ὄνησις · onēsis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1032)
- ὄνησιν · onēsin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5541)
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Where it came from
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