The corpus record

Πᾰλᾰμήδης

*palamedes · ὁ

Palamedes, the Inventor, worthy of Palamedes, ingenious

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Where it lives

Apology 1 · 5/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Palamedes, the Inventor, worthy of Palamedes, ingenious

Palamedes, i.e. the Inventor, Ar. Th. 770, Ra. 1451, Paus. 2.20.3:—hence Adj. Πᾰλᾰμήδειος, α, ον, worthy of Palamedes, ingenious, βούλευμα Alciphr. 3.4; ἀβάκιον EM 666.21; also Πᾰλᾰμηδικός, ή, όν, Π. τοὐξεύρημα Eup. 351.6.

In the wild

Παλαμήδης · Palamēdēs Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
Παλαμήδει · Palamēdei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1377)
Παλαμήδην · Palamēdēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.5 (DIORISIS sentence 7863)
Παλαμήδεά · Palamēdea Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1.195 (DIORISIS sentence 74)
Παλαμήδους · Palamēdous Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 289)
Παλαμήδει · Palamēdei Plato, Apology 41

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