The corpus record

ῥῖγ-ος

rigos · τό

frost, cold

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Philebus 2 · 1.13/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

frost, cold

frost, cold, Od. 5.472, Hdt. 6.44, etc.; ὑπὸ λιμοῦ καὶ ῥίγους Pl. Euthphr. 4d; λιμῷ καὶ ῥίγει μαχόμενος X. Cyr. 6.1.15: pl., ῥίγη καὶ θάλπη Id. Oec. 7.23.

2 shivering, shivering fit

shivering, Pl. Ti. 62b; shivering fit, as in ague, Hp. VM 16, Aph. 4.29, BGU 956.2 (iii A.D.); ῥ. πυρετώδη Hp. Fract. 34.

In the wild

ῥιγῶν · rhigōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1258)
ῥίγει · rhigei Epictetus, Fragments 0 (DIORISIS sentence 61)
ῥίγεϊ · rhigei Herodotus, Histories 6.44.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6411)
ῥῖγος · rhigos Odyssey 5.472
ῥιγῶν · rhigōn Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 729)
ῥίγους · rhigous Plato, Euthyphro 4

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Where it came from

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