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θᾰνάσῐμος

thanasimos

deadly, fatal

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Where it lives

  • Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
  • Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
  • Ion 3 · 3.28/10k
  • Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
  • Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
  • Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
  • Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
  • Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
  • Mark 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

deadly, fatal, poisonous, poisons, with deadly blow

deadly, fatal, Hp. Aph. 2.1, Pl. R. 610e, etc.; τύχαι A. Ag. 1276; πέσημα S. Aj. 1033; χείρωμα Id. OT 560; πέπλος Id. Tr. 758; φάρμακα E. Ion 616, Ph. Bel. 103.31, cf. Metrod. 53, etc.; θηρία θ., of poisonous reptiles, Plb. 1.56.4: θανάσιμα, τά, poisons, Ev.Marc. 16.18, Dsc. 4.108, Gal. 14.154. Adv. -μως, τύπτειν to strike with deadly blow, Antipho 4.3.4: neut. pl. as Adv., ἀσπίδες -μα δάκνουσαι D.S. 1.87.

2 belonging to death, life, death

belonging to death, θ. αἷμα the life-blood, A. Ag. 1019 (lyr.); μέλψασα θ. γόον having sung her death-song, ib. 1445; θ. ἐκπνοαί E. Hipp. 1438.

II near death, liable to the death-penalty

of persons, near death, S. Ph. 819; θ. ἤδη ὄντα Pl. R. 408b; liable to the death-penalty, Abh.Berl.Akad. 1925(5).21 (Cyrene).

2 dead

dead, S. Aj. 517; θ. βεβηκότα Id. OT 959.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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