The corpus record
Πρωτεύς
proteus
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Helen 10 · 10.22/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 7 · 9.95/10k
- Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump 1 · 4.94/10k
- Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
- Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Histories 12 · 0.65/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- History 2 · 0.13/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Senses
This appears to be a proper name — a person, a place, a river — attested in the corpus but outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul; no lexicon entry is recorded.
Attestations
- Πρωτέος · Prōteos Odyssey 4.365
- Πρωτεὺς · Prōteus Odyssey 4.385
- Πρωτέως · Prōteōs Plato, Republic 2.381 (DIORISIS sentence 1401)
- Πρωτέα · Prōtea Herodotus, Histories 2.112.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2310)
- Πρωτέος · Prōteos Herodotus, Histories 2.112.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2313)
- Πρωτέι · Prōtei Herodotus, Histories 2.112.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2314)
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Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
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