1. σέλας · selas — Beekes
The corpus record
σέλας
selas
light, glow, beam
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Where it lives
- De Mundo 5 · 7.89/10k
- Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
- Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
- Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
- Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. σέλας · selas — Chantraine
3. σέλας · selas — Frisk
4. σέλας · selas — Frisk
5. σέλ-ας · sel-as — LSJ
light, brightness, flame, πυρός Il. 19.366, al.; καιομένοιο πυρός, π. αἰθομένοιο, ib. 375, 8.563; ἐν σέλαϊ μεγάλῳ, without any word added, 17.739; δαΐδων σ. Od. 18.354, Hes. Sc. 275; σ. λάβρον Ἡφαίστου Pi. P. 3.39; ἀπὸ . . λάμπε γυίων σ. ὧτε πυρός B. 16.104; Ἥφαιστος . . λαμπρὸν ἐκπέμπων σ., of a beacon fire, A. Ag. 281, cf. 289; Ἡφαιστότευκτον, of a volcano, S. Ph. 986; καμίνου A. Fr. 281; ἐφέστιον σ. S. Tr. 607; of the heavenly bodies, σ. γένετʼ ἠΰτε μήνης Il. 19.374; ἁλίου σ. A. Eu. 926 (lyr.
In the wild
- σέλας · selas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 281
- σέλας · selas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 284–289
- σέλας · selas Aeschylus, Eumenides 921–926
- σέλας · selas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 358–359
- σέλας · selas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 7
- σέλα · sela Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 21)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σέλας (scan p. 1369; entry #5459).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σέλας (scan p. 1015; entry #7154).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σέλας (scan pp. 1661-1662; entry #5097).
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