The corpus record

τηλόθεν

telothen

from afar, far from

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Where it lives

Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Odyssey 11 · 1.27/10k
Iliad 10 · 0.9/10k

What it meant

1. τηλόθεν · tēlothen — LSJ

from afar

from afar, τ. ἦλθεν Il. 5.651, cf. S. Aj. 1318, Ph. 454; εἰ καὶ μάλα τηλόθεν ἐσσί Od. 6.312, cf. 7.194: in Hom. mostly folld. by ἐκ, τηλόθεν ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης Il. 1.270, al.:—τηλόθε, Pi. N. 3.81, AP 9.246 (Marc. Arg.).

2 far from

sts. in the sense of τηλόθι, σήμηνε δὲ τέρματʼ Ἀχιλλεὺς τ. ἐν λείῳ πεδίῳ Il. 23.359: so c. gen., Πελειάδων τηλόθεν far from them. Pi. N. 2.12, cf. S. Aj. 204 (anap.), E. HF 1112.

2. τηλῶθεν · tēlōthen — LSJ

= τηλόθεν, Theognost. Can. 157.

In the wild

τηλόθεν · tēlothen Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 468)
τηλόθεν · tēlothen Euripides, Heracles 1111–1112
τηλόθεν · tēlothen Theogony 782–786
τηλόθεν · tēlothen Iliad 1.270
τηλόθεν · tēlothen Iliad 18.208
τηλόθεν · tēlothen Iliad 2.849

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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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