The corpus record

ὁρμᾰθ-ός

ormathos · ὁ

string, chain

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Where it lives

Ion 3 · 7.48/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

ὁρμᾰθ-ός · hormath-os — LSJ

string, chain, cluster, beads, the links of a chain, chain

string, chain, or cluster of things hanging one from the other, as of beads or the links of a chain, Pl. Ion 533e; of bats, Od. 24.8; νεοττιῶν Arist. HA 559a8; κριβανωτῶν, ἰσχάδων, Ar. Pl. 765, Lys. 647 ; μελῶν Id. Ra. 914 ; ἁμαξῶν X. Cyr. 6.3.2 ; ἐνθουσιαζόντων, χορευτῶν, Pl. Ion 533e, 536a ; γραμματιδίων Thphr. Char. 6.8 ; perh. of a chain of reasoning, Polystr. p.9 W., cf. Phld. Rh. 1.186 S., Gal. 4.698; ἐρώτων Anacreont. 13.11.

II revolving

ὁ. ψάμμου a revolving sand-eddy, Arist. de An. 419b24.

In the wild

ὁρμαθοὺς · hormathous Aristophanes, Frogs 914–915
ὁρμαθόν · hormathon Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1.646 (DIORISIS sentence 501)
ὁρμαθῷ · hormathōi Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 601)
ὁρμαθοῦ · hormathou Odyssey 24.8
ὁρμαθὸς · hormathos Plato, Ion 533
ὁρμαθὸς · hormathos Plato, Ion 533

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