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παντοῖος

pantoios

of all sorts

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Where it lives

Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 2 · 3.48/10k
Philebus 6 · 3.4/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Odyssey 20 · 2.3/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Meditations 6 · 2.06/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Statesman 3 · 1.77/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παντοῖος · pantoios — LSJ

of all sorts, kinds, manifold

of all sorts or kinds, manifold, ἄνεμοι Il. 2.397; δόλοι 3.202; ἀρετή 22.268, E. Med. 845 (lyr.); τέχνη Od. 6.234, S. Aj. 752; φιλότης Od. 15.246, S. El. 134; λῦπαι Id. OT 915; λόγοι E. Hec. 840; τύχαι Arist. EN 1100a5; ἐξυβρίσαι παντοῖα Hdt. 3.126; πολλὰ καὶ π. λέγειν Id. 9.90, etc.

2 all possible shapes, tries every shift, they played all sorts of antics

in Prose of persons, παντοῖος γίνεται he takes all possible shapes, i.e. tries every shift, of persons in danger or difficulty, ib. 109: with part., π. ἐγένοντο δεόμενοι Id. 7.10.γ ; π. ἐγίνετο (sc. δεομένη) μὴ ἀποδημῆσαι τὸν Πολυκράτεα Id. 3.124; π. ἦν δεδιώς Luc. DDeor. 1[21].2; π. γενόμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ σῶσαι Plu. Mar. 30; rarely of joy, π. ὑπʼ εὐφροσύνης γενόμενοι they played all sorts of antics from joy, Luc. Demon. 6; π. ἦν ὑπʼ ἀπορίας Id. Laps. 1.

II in all kinds of ways, variously

Adv. -ως in all kinds of ways, variously, Hdt. 7.211; π. ἔχειν Pl. R. 559d, etc.

In the wild

παντοίας · pantoias Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 409)
παντοῖʼ · pantoiʼ Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 318)
παντοίας · pantoias Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 453)
παντοίων · pantoiōn Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 121)
παντοίων · pantoiōn Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 29)
παντοῖαι · pantoiai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1100a (DIORISIS sentence 259)

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