ὀρέσ-της · ores-tēs — LSJ
= ἐν ὄρεσι διαιτώμενος, Phot. : elsewh. only as pr. n. Ὀρέστης, voc. Ὀρέστα, S. El. 6, 15, etc.
The corpus record
Ὀρέστης
orestes · ὁ
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Where it lives
- Electra 27 · 35.71/10k
- Electra 30 · 34.56/10k
- Libation Bearers 18 · 33.48/10k
- Orestes 27 · 27.53/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 20 · 24.11/10k
- Eumenides 6 · 11.45/10k
- Ars Poetica 10 · 9.89/10k
- Alcibiades 2 3 · 7.03/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 5 · 5.6/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
- Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- Ὀρέστην · Orestēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1667
- Ὀρέστης · Orestēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 877–878
- Ὀρέστην · Orestēn Aeschylus, Eumenides 797–799
- Ὀρέστης · Orestēs Aeschylus, Eumenides 122
- Ὀρέστην · Orestēn Aeschylus, Eumenides 219–221
- Ὀρέστῃ · Orestēi Aeschylus, Eumenides 622–624
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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