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ῥάκος

rakos · τό

ragged, tattered garment

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Where it lives

  • Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
  • Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
  • Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • Odyssey 11 · 1.27/10k
  • Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
  • Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
  • Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
  • Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

ragged, tattered garment, rags, tatters

ragged, tattered garment, δὸς ῥ. ἀμφιβαλέσθαι Od. 6.178, cf. 13.434, 14.342, 349 (never in Il.); ἀνθʼ ἱματίου μὲν ἔχειν ῥ. Ar. Pl. 540; ῥ. φορεῖ Antiph. 204.6, PPetr. 3p.115 (iii B.C.), cf. Philem. 146: freq. in pl. ῥάκεα, Att. ῥάκη, rags, tatters, Od. 14.512, 18.67, 74, 19.507, al., Hdt. 3.129, S. Ph. 39, 274; ἐν ῥάκεσι περιφθείρεσθαι Isoc. Ep. 9.10.

2 strip of cloth, strip

generally, strip of cloth, ῥάκεα φοινίκεα Hdt. 7.76, cf. Ev.Matt. 9.16, Arr. Tact. 35.3: even a strip of flesh, σώματος ῥ. A. Pr. 1023.

3 rag, lint

collectively, rag, lint, Hp. Morb. 2.36; ῥάκη λινᾶ Dsc. 5.75.15.

II rents in the face, wrinkles

in pl. also, rents in the face, wrinkles, Ar. Pl. 1065.

III rag, remnant

metaph., rag, remnant, εἰκάσαι τὸ ἐρείπιον ῥάκει οἰκίας Anon. ap. Arist. Rh. 1413a6; of an old seaman, ἁλίοιο βίου ῥ. AP 9.242 (Antiphil.), cf. 7.380 (Crin.), Luc. Tim. 32.—The Aeol. form βράκος (q.v.), used of a garment, lacks the sense ‘ragged’.

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