Σελήνη

Where it lives

• Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
• De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
• Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
• Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
• Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
• Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Σελήνη · Selēnē Aristophanes, Peace 1 (DIORISIS sentence 313)
• Σελήνη · Selēnē Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 147)
• Σελήνῃ · Selēnēi Herodotus, Histories 2.47.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1885)
• Σελήνῃ · Selēnēi Herodotus, Histories 2.47.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1887)
• Σελήνην · Selēnēn Theogony 371–374
• Σελήνην · Selēnēn Theogony 9–21

6 of 8 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Σελήνη (scan pp. 1369-1370; entry #5462).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σελήνη (scan p. 1015; entry #7157).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σελήνη (scan p. 2303; entry #7903).

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