The corpus record

παλμός

palmos · ὁ

quivering motion

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

παλμός · palmos — LSJ

quivering motion, pulsation, throbbing, palpitation of the heart, twitching

quivering motion, πυγῆς Alciphr. 1.39; esp. pulsation, throbbing (on π. and σφυγμός cf. Gal. 8.716), φλεβῶν Hp. Acut. 37; ὑποχονδρίου Id. Epid. 1.4.2 [1.26.βʹ]; ὑπὸ κροτάφοισι Nic. Al. 27, cf. Th. 744: abs., palpitation of the heart, a disease, Arist. Resp. 479b21; twitching, Gal. 7.588.

2 vibration, rapid motion, impetus

of natural phenomena, vibration, rapid motion, D.S. 3.51, Nonn. D. 2.193, al.; of meteors, Plu. Lys. 12 codd.; impetus of a projectile, Ath.Mech. 37.8.

3 internal vibration

in Epicur., internal vibration of bodies, Ep. I p.8 U., cf. Id. ap. Placit. 1.12.5 (v.l. ἀποπαλμός).

In the wild

παλμῷ · palmōi Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 183)
παλμὸν · palmon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8870)

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