charm, spell
charm, spell, in pl., Hld. 7.9: more usu. metaph., ὦ φίλον ὕπνου θ. E. Or. 211; πόθων θέλγητρα Ath. 5.220f; of music, Luc. Im. 14; of a city, Id. Scyth. 5; cf. θέλκτρον.
The corpus record
θέλγητρον
thelgetron · τό
charm, spell
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Where it lives
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θέλγητρον · thelgētron Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 122)
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.