The corpus record

ὄντως

ontos

(sum), really, actually, verily

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Where it lives

Epinomis 16 · 25.37/10k
1 Timothy 4 · 25.25/10k
Sophist 22 · 13.73/10k
Epistles 18 · 10.63/10k
Against Onetor 2 1 · 10.53/10k
Plutus 8 · 9.92/10k
Philebus 15 · 8.51/10k
De Mundo 5 · 7.89/10k
Statesman 11 · 6.49/10k
Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k
Enneads 119 · 5.61/10k
Laws 52 · 5.04/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὄντως · ontōs — LSJ

(sum), really, actually, verily, really, real

(sum), really, actually, verily, with Verbs, E. HF 610, Ion 223 (lyr.), IA [1622], Ar. Nu. 86, Pl. 286, 289, Herod. 4.65, etc.; ὄντως τε καὶ ἀληθῶς really and truly, Pl. Sph. 263d ; ὄ. φιλοσοφεῖν Epicur. Fr. 220 ; opp. to ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, Pl. Lg. 656e ; to εἰκότως, Antipho 2.2.10 and 4.10 : in Pl. with the part. ὤν, οὖσα, ὄν, to imply real existence, Phdr. 247c, 247e, R. 597d : also with Nouns, τὰ ὄντως ἀγαθά Id. Phdr. 260a; ὅ γε ὄντως φιλομαθής Id. R. 490a ; ὄντως ἑταίρας Antiph. 212.6, cf. Men.

In the wild

ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 70)
ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 989)
ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 637)
ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Frogs 189
ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 234)
ὄντως · ontōs Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 236)

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Where it came from

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