The corpus record

ψολό-εις

psoloeis

sooty, smoky

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sooty, smoky, lurid

sooty, smoky, mostly as epith. of κεραυνός, lurid, Od. 23.330, 24.539, Hes. Th. 515; opp. ἀργής (vivid), Arist. Mete. 371a21, Mu. 395a26; also of a serpent, opp. αἰθός, χροιῇ ψολόεις Nic. Th. 288, cf. 129 (where ψολόεις is fem.), Opp. C. 3.439; Αἴτνη ψολόεσσα Euph. 51.11.

ψολόεις, οἱ, the male mourners in a ritual at the Boeotian Orchomenos, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.299e: prob. so called because δυσειματοῦντες, cf. Plu. l.c.

In the wild

ψολόεντες · psoloentes Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 78)
ψολόεντι · psoloenti Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 28)
ψολόεντι · psoloenti Shield of Heracles 421–422
ψολόεντι · psoloenti Theogony 514–516
ψολόεντι · psoloenti Odyssey 23.330
ψολόεντα · psoloenta Odyssey 24.539

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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