The corpus record
Ὀρφεύς
orpheus
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Busiris 3 · 10.92/10k
- Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
- Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
- Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Protagoras 2 · 1.13/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Cratylus 2 · 1.12/10k
- Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
- Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Densest 12 of 16 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
- Ὀρφεῖ · Orphei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1629
- Ὀρφεὺς · Orpheus Aristophanes, Frogs 1032–1033
- Ὀρφεὺς · Orpheus Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton 1 11 (DIORISIS sentence 25)
- Ὀρφέα · Orphea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 322)
- Ὀρφέα · Orphea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 28)
- Ὀρφέα · Orphea Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 24)
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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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