Thermopylae, ‘gate of hot springs’
Thermopylae, ‘gate of hot springs’, Hdt. 7.176, 201, Str. 9.4.12.
The corpus record
Θερμο-πύλαι
thermopulai · αἱ
Thermopylae, ‘gate of hot springs’
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Where it lives
- Histories 28 · 1.53/10k
- History 4 · 0.27/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Θερμοπύλαις · Thermopylais Epictetus, Discourses 2.20 (DIORISIS sentence 3231)
- Θερμοπύλῃσι · Thermopylēisi Herodotus, Histories 7.175.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8085)
- Θερμοπύλῃσι · Thermopylēisi Herodotus, Histories 7.175.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8087)
- Θερμοπύλας · Thermopylas Herodotus, Histories 7.175.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8087)
- Θερμοπυλέων · Thermopyleōn Herodotus, Histories 7.176.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8094)
- Θερμοπυλέων · Thermopyleōn Herodotus, Histories 7.176.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8095)
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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.