The corpus record

τάφρος

taphros · ἡ

ditch, trench

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Where it lives

Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 3 · 4.32/10k
Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 2 · 3.48/10k
Iliad 37 · 3.32/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Anabasis 11 · 1.96/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Cyropaedia 11 · 1.39/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

ditch, trench, trench, trenches, irrigation-ditch

ditch, trench, freq. in Il. (once in Od., 21.120); τάφρον ὀρύξομεν Il. 7.341, cf. IG 1(2).94.21, 34, Th. 2.78, al.; ἀμφὶ δὲ τάφρον ἤλασαν drew a trench, Il. 7.449, cf. Hdt. 4.3, Alcid. Od. 5, etc.; τάφρων ὕπερ over the trenches, S. Aj. 1279, cf. Aen.Tact. 37.3, al., OGI 90.24 (Rosetta, ii B.C.); irrigation-ditch, PHal. 1.97, al., PSI 6.597.5 (both iii B.C.): it is sts. found as masc. in codd., e.g. Ph. Bel. 99.43 (cod. V), D.S. 22.10.5; but βαθύν is Ep. for βαθεῖαν in Call. Del. 37: Dor. τράφος

In the wild

τάφρων · taphrōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1116a (DIORISIS sentence 914)
τάφρον · taphron Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5340)
τάφρου · taphrou Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 655)
τάφρου · taphrou Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 690)
τάφρων · taphrōn Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 407)
τάφροις · taphrois Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 149)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τάφρος (scan p. 1116; entry #7877).

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