Σκύλαξ

Where it lives

• Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
• Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

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

• Σκύλαξ · Skylax Aristotle, Politics 1332b (DIORISIS sentence 2811)
• Σκύλακα · Skylaka Herodotus, Histories 4.44.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4352)
• Σκύλαξ · Skylax Herodotus, Histories 5.33.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5575)
• Σκύλακος · Skylakos Herodotus, Histories 5.33.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5576)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Σκύλαξ (scan pp. 1412-1413; entry #5631). Root candidates: *skul-, *skol-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σκύλαξ (scan p. 1043; entry #7398).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σκύλαξ (scan pp. 1713-1714; entry #5236). Root candidates: *skul-, *sköl-.

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