1. Σίσυφος · Sisyphos — Chantraine
The corpus record
Σίσυφος
sisuphos
Sisyphe, fils d'Éole, le plus rusé des humains, un des criminels châtiés aux Enf
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Where it lives
- Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
- Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
- Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
2. Σίσυφος · Sisyphos — Frisk
3. Σίσῠφος · Sisyphos — LSJ
Sisyphus, Il. 6.153, Od. 11.593: prov., πλείονα δʼ εἰδείης Σισύφου Thgn. 702; μηχαναὶ Σισύφου Ar. Ach. 391; nickname of the Spartan Dercyllidas, X. HG 3.1.8:—Adj. Σῑσύφειος, α, ον, E. Med. 405, etc.; Σισυφία χθών, i.e. Corinth, Epigr. ap. Paus. 5.2.5; Σισυφὶς ἀκτή, αἶα, Theoc. 22.158, AP 7.354 (Gaet.); Σισύφειον, τό, temple of S., D.S. 20.103, Str. 8.6.21.
In the wild
- Σισύφου · Sisyphou Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 289)
- Σίσυφος · Sisyphos Aristotle, Ars Poetica 18
- Σίσυφον · Sisyphon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- Σίσυφος · Sisyphos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2683)
- Σίσυφον · Sisyphon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5298)
- Σισύφου · Sisyphou Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 837)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σίσυφος (scan p. 1026; entry #7261).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σίσυφος (scan p. 1683; entry #5154). Root candidates: *iui-.
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