1. Ψόγος · Psogos — Chantraine
Ψόγος, voir s.u. ψέγω : puisqu'il s'agit de reproches exprimés, λόγος peut avoir fourni un modèle lexical et morphologique. Wépos m., «grand bruit » voir s.u. — [Chantraine, s.v. Ψόγος, p. 1313]
The corpus record
ψόγος
psogos
il s
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Where it lives
- Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
- Crito 2 · 4.8/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
- Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
- Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
- Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
- Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
- Protagoras 4 · 2.25/10k
- Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Rhetoric 8 · 1.86/10k
Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ψόγος · psogos — LSJ
blamable fault, blemish, flaw
blamable fault, blemish, flaw, ἄνευ ψόγου τετυγμένος Simon. 5.2.
II blame, censure, to be blamed, lampoons
blame, censure, ὀνείδεα καὶ ψ. Xenoph. 11.2; σκοτεινὸς ψ. Pi. N. 7.61; μὴ τὸν ἀνθρώπειον αἰδεσθῇ ψόγον A. Ag. 937, cf. E. Ph. 94: pl., ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ἐμέ S. Ant. 759; οὐ ψιλῶ ψόγους κλύειν cj. for ψόφους in E. Ion 630; also in Com. and Prose, Ar. Th. 146, 895, etc.; τοῖς πέλας ψ. ἐπενεγκεῖν Th. 1.70, cf. 2.45; ψ. φέρειν Pl. Smp. 182a; ψ. ἔχειν to be blamed, Id. Lg. 823b; ψ. ἀμουσίας ὑφέξοντα Id. R. 403c: pl., ἐγκώμιά τε καὶ ψόγους ποιεῖν ἀλλήλοις lampoons, Id. Lg. 829c, cf. Grg. 483c, al.
In the wild
- ψόγον · psogon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 937
- ψόγον · psogon Aeschylus, Eumenides 437–438
- ψόγος · psogos Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 480–484
- ψόγον · psogon Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 972–973
- ψόγους · psogous Aristotle, Ars Poetica 4
- ψόγον · psogon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 4
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ψόγος (scan p. 1313; entry #8924).