whetstone, incentives
whetstone, A. Ag. 1536 (lyr.), S. Aj. 820: metaph., αἱματηρὰς θηγάνας incentives to bloodshed, A. Eu. 859; θ. λάλης Luc. Lex. 14:—also θήγανον, τό, Hsch.
The corpus record
θηγάν-η
thegane · ἡ
whetstone, incentives
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Where it lives
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θηγάναισι · thēganaisi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1535–1536
- θηγάνας · thēganas Aeschylus, Eumenides 858–863
- θηγάνῃ · thēganēi Sophocles, Ajax 819–820
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.