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σώτειρα

soteira · ἡ

an antidote

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

σώτειρα · sōteira — LSJ

freq. as epith. of protecting goddesses, of Τύχα, Pi. O. 12.2 (cf. σωτήρ I.2); of Θέμις, ib. 8.21; of Εὐνομία, ib. 9.16; of Athena, Lycurg. 17, IG 2(2).676.12; of Artemis, AP 6.267 (Diotim.), IG 2(2).4695; of Hecate, CIG (add.) 3827q (Cotiaeum); of Rhea, ib. 4695 (Egypt), etc.; ἡ Σ. abs., of Demeter, Ar. Ra. 379 (lyr.), Arist. Rh. 1419a3; of Kore, SIG 1158.5 (Cyzicus, iii B.C.); of Artemis, IG 2(2).1343.24,40, etc.; of Cleopatra II or III, PTheb.Bank 11.2, OGI 739.8 (ii B.C.).

II an antidote

an antidote, Gal. ap. Hsch., Paul.Aeg. 3.45, 7.11.23.

In the wild

σωτείρας · sōteiras Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
σωτείρᾳ · sōteirai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3716)
σώτειραν · sōteiran Herodotus, Histories 2.156.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2689)
σώτειραν · sōteiran Plato, Laws 960

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