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The corpus record

τᾰμῐ-εῖον

tamieion · τό

treasury, aerarium, fiscus

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Where it lives

  • Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
  • Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
  • Regnorum IV 3 · 1.73/10k
  • Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
  • On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
  • Judices (cod. Al.) 2 · 1.37/10k
  • Deuteronomium 2 · 0.89/10k
  • Job 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
  • Regnorum III 1 · 0.52/10k
  • Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τᾰμῐ-εῖον · tami-eion — LSJ

treasury, aerarium, fiscus

treasury, Th. 1.96, Pl. R. 416d, 550d, Plu. Cat.Mi. 18; of the Roman aerarium, Plb. 6.31.5, IG 42(1).63.7 (Epid., ii B.C.); the Imperial fiscus, PRyl. 84.7 (ii A.D.), etc.

2 magazine, storehouse, store-room, reservoir

magazine, storehouse, Th. 7.24, X. Eq. 4.1, Arist. Oec. 1344b33, PCair.Zen. 299.7, 472.10 (iii B.C.); store-room, IG 1(2).4.14, Pl. Prt. 315d, Men. Sam. 14, Str. 6.2.7, Babr. 108.2, Sor. 1.51, Plu. Lib.educ. 2.9e; reservoir, Hp. Vict. 1.10.

3 chamber, closet

chamber, closet, LXX Ge. 43.30, al., Ev.Matt. 6.6. (Freq. contr. to ταμεῖον in Papyri, Inscrr., and codd. from i B.C., Phld. Oec. p.3 J. (citing Arist. l.c.), Babr. l.c., CPR 1.83 (i A.D.), SIG 1242.6 (Ephesus, iii A.D.), etc.; also written ταμῖον PLond. 2.216.22 (i A.D.), etc.)

In the wild

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Where it came from

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