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θεράπων

therapon · ὁ

henchman, attendant

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Where it lives

  • Exodus 27 · 11.41/10k
  • Judith 8 · 9.13/10k
  • Job 5 · 3.75/10k
  • Iliad 35 · 3.14/10k
  • Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
  • Deuteronomium 4 · 1.79/10k
  • Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
  • Numeri 3 · 1.3/10k
  • Cyropaedia 10 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

henchman, attendant, companion in arms, squire, worshipper, devoted to the service of, attending upon

henchman, attendant, Od. 16.253, etc.; companion in arms, squire, 4.23, etc.; ἡνίοχος θ. Il. 5.580, 8.119; τώ οἱ ἔσαν κήρυκε . . καὶ θεράποντε 1.321; θεράποντε Διός Od. 11.255; θεράποντες Ἄρηος Il. 2.110, etc.; Μουσάων θεράποντες h.Hom. 32.20, cf. Hes. Th. 100, Thgn. 769, Ar. Av. 909 (lyr.); Ἔρως Ἀφροδίτης θ. Pl. Smp. 203c, cf. Sapph. l.c.; worshipper, Ἀπόλλωνος Pi. O. 3.16, cf. Pl. Phd. 85a; Ἄρεος BMus.Inscr. 971 (Cypr., v B.C.): c. dat., οἶκος ξένοισι θεράπων devoted to the service of its gues

II servant, slave

servant, Hdt. 1.30, 5.105, Ar. Pl. 3, 5, And. 1.12, Lys. 7.34, etc.; at Chios, slave, Eust. ad D.P. 533.

In the wild

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θεράπων (scan p. 588; entry #2548).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θεράπων (scan pp. 444-445; entry #3118).

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