The corpus record

τᾰρακ-τικός

taraktikos

disturbing

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Where it lives

Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k

What it meant — LSJ

disturbing, agitators

disturbing, τῆς ψυχῆς Plu. Crass. 23 (Sup.); τ. καὶ νεωτερισταί, of political agitators, D.H. 5.75; of food that does not agree with the stomach, τ. τῶν καθʼ ὕπνον ὄψεων Plu. QConv. 2.734f; οἶνος τ. ib. 648b, cf. Sor. 1.86 (prob.), Mnesith. ap. Gal. 6.645; τ. τῆς κοιλίας Id. ap. Ath. 3.92b.

In the wild

ταρακτικὴ · taraktikē Epictetus, Discourses 2.16 (DIORISIS sentence 2809)
ταρακτικόν · taraktikon Epictetus, Discourses 3.18 (DIORISIS sentence 4635)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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