The corpus record

πᾰλαμναῖος

palamnaios · ὁ

one guilty of violence

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Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

one guilty of violence, murderer, one defiled by blood-guiltiness, miscreant!

one guilty of violence: hence, murderer, τινος S. Tr. 1207; one defiled by blood-guiltiness, A. Eu. 448, S. El. 587, Hyp. Fr. 85; ὦ παλαμναίη O miscreant!, of the fox, Babr. 82.6.

2 abominable, a murdererʼs, a miscreantʼs

as Adj., τῷ π. ξένῳ the abominable stranger, Phryn.Com. 58; ἱκεσίαι a murdererʼs supplications, A.R. 4.709; ἀσπίς Orph. L. 512; π. μόρον ἕξει a miscreantʼs death, prob. in Supp.Epigr. 1.442 (Lydia).

II avenger of blood, avenging

= ἀλάστωρ, avenger of blood, μὴ παλαμναῖον λάβω E. IT 1218, cf. X. Cyr. 8.7.18 (pl.); in full, δαίμονες π. avenging deities, Ti.Locr. 105, cf. Plu. Oth. 1, Jul. Caes. 336b; Ζεὺς π. Arist. Mu. 401a23, cf. Plb. Fr. 98, Poll. 5.131, EM 647.43.

In the wild

παλαμναῖον · palamnaion Aeschylus, Eumenides 448–450
παλαμναῖος · palamnaios Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 171)
παλαμναῖον · palamnaion Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 759)
παλαμναίῳ · palamnaiōi Sophocles, Electra 585–590
παλαμναῖον · palamnaion Sophocles, Trachiniae 1206–1207
παλαμναίους · palamnaious Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.18 (DIORISIS sentence 4850)

Where it came from

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