The corpus record

ῥέθος

rethos · τό

limb, limbs, face, countenance

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant — LSJ

limb, limbs

limb, usu. in pl. ῥέθεα, limbs, ψυχὴ δʼ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Il. 16.856; ῥεθέων ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται 22.68, cf. Theoc. 23.39.

II face, countenance

in sg., face, countenance, S. Ant. 529 (anap.), E. HF 1204 (anap.), Theoc. 29.16: Aeol. in this sense acc. to Eust. 1090.27; it occurs in broken context, Sapph. Supp. 11.3.

2 body

body, Lyc. 173.

In the wild

ῥέθος · rhethos Euripides, Heracles 1204–1205
ῥεθέων · rhetheōn Iliad 16.856
ῥεθέων · rhetheōn Iliad 22.362
ῥεθέων · rhetheōn Iliad 22.68
ῥεθέων · rhetheōn Plato, Republic 3.386 (DIORISIS sentence 1465)
ῥεθέων · rhetheōn Plato, Republic 3.386 (DIORISIS sentence 1465)

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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. ῥέθος (scan pp. 1330-1331; entry #5301).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥέθος (scan p. 989; entry #6951).

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