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Σάρδεις

*sardeis · αἱ

Sardes

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Where it lives

Histories 121 · 6.59/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Revelation 3 · 3.03/10k
Agesilaus 2 · 2.72/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Cyropaedia 11 · 1.39/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Hellenica 8 · 1.22/10k
Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

Sardes

Sardes, the capital of Lydia, A. Pers. 45 (anap.); dat. Σάρδεσι ib. 321:—Ion. Σάρδιες AP 7.709 (Alexander), etc. (Σάρδῑς is only f.l. in Hdt. 5.102); gen. Σαρδίων, dat. Σάρδῐσι, Hdt. 1.7, 5.101, etc.; acc. Σάρδιας Call. Dian. 246, or Σάρδῑς Hdt. 1.27:—Adj. Σαρδιᾱνός, Ion. Σαρδι-ηνός, ή, όν, ib. 22, 80, E. Fr. 630, Call. Iamb. 1.172 (-ηνευς Pap.); οἱ Σαρδιανοί X. Cyr. 7.2.3:—Σαρδιᾱνικός, ή, όν, Ar. Ach. 112, Pax 1174, Pl.Com. 208; v. βάπτω Ι.2.

In the wild

Σάρδεσι · Sardesi Aeschylus, Persians 320–325
Σάρδεις · Sardeis Aeschylus, Persians 41–48
Σάρδεις · Sardeis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2245)
Σάρδις · Sardis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 671)
Σάρδεις · Sardeis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 858)
Σάρδεις · Sardeis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 912)

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Where it came from

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