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πάν-δημος

pandemos

the whole body of

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Where it lives

Symposium 5 · 2.87/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

πάν-δημος · pan-dēmos — LSJ

the whole body of, of, general, pandemic

= πανδήμιος (esp. in Prose), βοῦς S. Aj. 175 (lyr.); ἀγών E. Alc. 1026; στέγαι Id. Ba. 227; π. πόλις, στρατός, the whole body of the city, of the army, S. Ant. 7, Aj. 844; π. χάρις general favour, Alcid. ap. Arist. Rh. 1406a26; δόξα Plb. 31.25.8; δεῖπνον IG 7.2712.79 (Acraeph.); ἀρχή Sammelb. 5765 (iii/ iv A. D.); of diseases, pandemic, Gal. 17(1).2; epith. of Zeus at Athens, IG 2(2).1075. Adv. -μως, = πανδημεί, τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εὐώχησε π. ib. 5(2).268.43 (Mantinea).

II vulgar, common, vulgar, ordinary (common)

π. Ἔρως vulgar love, opp. οὐράνιος, Pl. Smp. 180e sq., cf. X. Smp. 8.9; π. Ἀφροδίτη Pl. Smp. 181a, IG 2(2).659, SIG 1014.57 (Erythrae, iii B. C.), Paus. 1.22.3, Luc. DMeretr. 7.1, etc. (also in pl., Dam. Pr. 97 bis); π. ἐρασταί Pl. Smp. 181e; π. μουσική common, vulgar music, Aristox. Fr.Hist. 90; ἡ π. λέξις ordinary (common) speech, Phld. Rh. 1.165 S.

In the wild

πανδήμου · pandēmou Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
πανδήμοισι · pandēmoisi Euripides, Bacchae 226–227
πανδήμου · pandēmou Euripides, Bacchae 443–446
πανδήμους · pandēmous Plato, Symposium 181 (DIORISIS sentence 195)
πάνδημός · pandēmos Plato, Symposium 181 (DIORISIS sentence 183)
πάνδημος · pandēmos Plato, Symposium 183 (DIORISIS sentence 216)

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