Πόντος

Where it lives

• Against Lacritus 26 · 72.79/10k
• Trapeziticus 12 · 36.04/10k
• Against The Corn-Dealers 1 · 8.9/10k
• In Defense of Mantitheus 1 · 8.76/10k
• De Mundo 4 · 6.31/10k
• 1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
• On the Accession of Alexander 1 · 5.6/10k
• Against Pantaenetus 2 · 5.37/10k
• Apollodorus Against Polycles 2 · 4.37/10k
• Theogony 3 · 4.36/10k
• Oeconomica II 2 · 4.25/10k
• Economics 2 · 3.23/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Πόντου · Pontou Aeschylus, Persians 864–878
• Πόντου · Pontou Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 485)
• Πόντος · Pontos Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 37)
• Πόντου · Pontou Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 45)
• Πόντον · Ponton Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 45)
• Πόντου · Pontou Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 46)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Πόντος (scan p. 1272; entry #5094).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Πόντος (scan p. 945; entry #6667).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Πόντος (scan pp. 1550-1551; entry #4759).

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