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σαθρ-ός

sathros

unsound, impotent, cracked

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Where it lives

  • Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
  • Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
  • Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
  • Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
  • Job 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
  • Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

unsound, impotent

unsound, σκυτέες τὰ σ. ὑγιέα ποιέουσι Hp. Vict. 1.15; of diseased or unsound parts of the frame, τὰ σ. ὑπὸ τῶν ἰητρῶν ὑγιαίνονται ibid.; γάλλοι καὶ σ. impotent, PGnom. 244 (ii A.D.).

2 cracked

of a vessel, cracked, opp. ὑγιής, εἴ πῄ τι σαθρὸν ἔχει, πᾶν περικρούωμεν Pl. Phlb. 55c; εἴτε ὑγιὲς εἴτε σ. φθέγγεται Id. Tht. 179d; ἀγγεῖα τετρημένα καὶ σ. Id. Grg. 493e; πίθοι σαθροί prob. in IG 1(2).326.7; [φωναὶ] σαθραὶ καὶ παρερρυηκυῖαι Arist. Aud. 804a32: metaph., ἡ κολακεία σαθρὸν ὑπηχεῖ Plu. Adul. 2.64e.

3 unsound, unsound thought, unsound

metaph., σ. κῦδος unsound fame, Pi. N. 8.34; πρίν τι καὶ σαθρὸν μετεξετέροισι ἐγγενέσθαι before any unsound thought comes into their heads, i.e. before they prove traitors, Hdt. 6.109; σ. λόγοι E. Hec. 1190, Rh. 639; τί τοῦτʼ αἴνιγμα σημαίνεις σ.; Id. Supp. 1064; τοῦτʼ ἐς γυναῖκας δόλιόν ἐστι καὶ σαθρόν Id. Ba. 487; σ. μετάβασις Pl. Lg. 736e; σ. ἐστι . . πᾶν ὅ τι ἂν μὴ δικαίως ᾖ πεπραγμένον D. 18.227; εὕροιμʼ ἂν ὅπῃ σαθρός ἐστι Pl. Euthphr. 5c; εὑρήσει τὰ σαθρὰ τῶν ἐκείνου πραγμάτων ὁ πόλεμος D.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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