LOGOI

The corpus record

παιδᾰγωγ-ός

paidagogos · ὁ

slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again

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Where it lives

  • Galatians 2 · 9.15/10k
  • Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 3 · 6.17/10k
  • Lysis 3 · 4.32/10k
  • Alcibiades 1 2 · 1.95/10k
  • 1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k
  • Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
  • Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
  • Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
  • Discourses 5 · 0.67/10k
  • Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Republic 4 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, because he always followed him about, has guided us, leader

= παιδὸς ἀγωγός, slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, Hdt. 8.75, E. Ion 725, El. 287, Antipho 3.3.7, Lys. 32.28, Pl. Ly. 208c: coupled with τίτθη, τροφός, Id. R. 373c; with ἡγεμών, ib. 467d; with διδάσκαλος, X. Lac. 3.1; of Phoenix, as the π. of Achilles, Pl. R. 390e, etc.; Fabius is called the π. of Hannibal, because he always followed him about, Plu. Fab. 5: metaph., ὁ νόμος π. εἰς Χριστόν has guided us until attainment of faith in Christ, Ep.Gal. 3.24: generally, lead

In the wild

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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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