The corpus record

πᾰλαιστής

palaistes1 · ὁ

wrestler, rival, adversary, suitor

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Where it lives

Hippias Minor 2 · 4.59/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Regnorum III 1 · 0.52/10k
Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wrestler

wrestler, Od. 8.246, Hdt. 3.137, Pl. Lg. 819b, Trag.Adesp. 383.3, etc.; ἄνδρες π. Ar. Lys. 1083; παῖδες π. CIG 1969 (Thessalonica); σὺν σάκει . . π., of soldiers, S. Fr. 859 (lyr.).

2 rival, adversary

generally, rival, adversary, τοῖον π. νῦν παρασκευάζεται ἐπʼ αὐτὸς αὑτῷ A. Pr. 920; σοφὸς π. κεῖνος, of Odysseus, S. Ph. 431; λόχος . . ἐξηνδρωμένος δεινὸς π. ἦν E. Supp. 704.

3 suitor

suitor, A. Ag. 1206.

In the wild

παλαιστὴς · palaistēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1206
παλαιστής · palaistēs Epictetus, Discourses 3.15 (DIORISIS sentence 4563)
παλαιστής · palaistēs Epictetus, Enchiridion 29 (DIORISIS sentence 205)
παλαιστὴς · palaistēs Euripides, Suppliants *)/aggelos.703 (DIORISIS sentence 406)
παλαιστὴς · palaistēs Plato, Hippias Minor 374
παλαιστὴς · palaistēs Plato, Hippias Minor 374

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Where it came from

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