1. σάτυρος · satyros — Beekes
The corpus record
Σάτῠρος
*saturos
Satyr
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Where it lives
- Symposium 4 · 2.29/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 17 · 1.59/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Hellenica 4 · 0.61/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
2. σάτυρος · satyros — Chantraine
3. σάτυρος · satyros — Frisk
4. Σάτῠρος · Satyros — LSJ
Satyr, first in Hes. (γένος οὐτιδανῶν Σατύρων καὶ ἀμηχανοεργῶν Fr. 198.2), cf. X. An. 1.2.13, Paus. 1.23.5, Sch. Theoc. 4.62; of Dionysus himself, AP 9.524; Σατύρων πρόσωπα as ornaments, Lys. Fr. 34.
lewd, goatish fellow, Jul. Caes. 309d; βασιλεὺς Σατύρων, of Pericles, Hermipp. 46; σατύρα, ἡ, of a courtesan, Com.Adesp. 1352:—Socrates is called ὅδε ὁ Σ. from his appearance, Pl. Smp. 216c.
from their supposed likeness, a kind of tailed ape, Paus. 1.23.5 sq., Ael. NA 16.21.
a fabulous people in Ethiopia, D.S. 1.18.
= ἡ ἔντασις, Hsch.
in pl., a play in which the Chorus consisted of Satyrs, Satyric drama, forming the fourth piece of a Tragic tetralogy, ὅταν Σατύρους ποιῇς Ar. Th. 157; ποηταὶ σατύρων SIG 711L 35 (Delph., ii B.C.); ἐν τοῖς Σ. οὒς Μενέδημον ἐπέγραψεν [Λυκόφρων] D.L. 2.140; ἐν Ὀμφάλῃ Σατύροις Str. 1.3.19. [Σᾰτῠρος; so that when the 1st syll. is long, Dor. Τίτυρος (q.v.) should prob. be restored.]
In the wild
- Σάτυρος · Satyros Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1148a (DIORISIS sentence 2346)
- Σάτυρος · Satyros Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 529)
- Σάτυρος · Satyros Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.5 (DIORISIS sentence 676)
- Σατύρου · Satyrou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.5 (DIORISIS sentence 673)
- Σατύροις · Satyrois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2148)
- σατύροις · satyrois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2198)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Σάτῠρος (scan pp. 1362-1363; entry #5436).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σάτῠρος (scan p. 1010; entry #7124).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σάτῠρος (scan pp. 1653-1654; entry #5080). Root candidates: *ghaido-.