The corpus record

θαλία

thalia · ἡ

abundance, good cheer

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Where it lives

Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

abundance, good cheer, festivities, funeral-feast

abundance, good cheer, τρέφεται θαλίῃ ἔνι πολλῇ Il. 9.143, 285: in pl., festivities, μετʼ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι τέρπεται ἐν θαλίῃς Od. 11.603, cf. h.Merc. 56, Hes. Op. 115, Archil. 9, Xenoph. 1.12 (sg.), Pi. O. 7.94, Trag.Adesp. 397 (anap.), Ar. Nu. 309, Pax 780 (both lyr.), Av. 733 (anap.); εἶναι ἐν θαλίῃσι Hdt. 3.27; θ. κισσοφόροι E. Ba. 384 (lyr.); of a funeral-feast, ἀμφʼ ὁσίῃ θαλίῃ . . ἄνακτος Orac. ap. Plu. Arat. 53.

v. θαλλία II.

III

as pr. n., v. θάλεια III.

In the wild

θαλίαις · thaliais Euripides, Bacchae 378–388
θαλίαισιν · thaliaisin Euripides, Bacchae 417–420
θαλίαι · thaliai Euripides, Heracles 763–764
θαλίῃσι · thaliēisi Herodotus, Histories 3.27.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3059)
θαλίαι · thaliai Shield of Heracles 284
θαλίῃς · thaliēis Theogony 64

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Where it came from

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