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θέσφατος

thesphatos

spoken by God, decreed

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Where it lives

  • Iphigenia in Aulis 6 · 6.72/10k
  • Phoenissae 6 · 6.22/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
  • Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
  • Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
  • Ion 3 · 3.28/10k
  • Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
  • Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
  • Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
  • Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

spoken by God, decreed, ordained

spoken by God, decreed, μόρος A. Ag. 1321; ἥκει θ. βίου τελευτή S. OC 1472: mostly in phrase θέσφατόν ἐστι, it is ordained, ὣς γὰρ θ. ἐστι Il. 8.477, cf. E. IA 1556: c. dat. pers. et inf., σοὶ δʼ οὐ θ. ἐστι . . θανέειν Od. 4.561, cf. 10.473, Pi. P. 4.71, Orac. in Ar. Pax 1073; so εἴ τι θ. πατρὶ . . ἱκνεῖθʼ, ὥστε πρὸς παίδων θανεῖν S. OC 969.

2 divine decrees, oracles

Subst. θέσφατα, τά, divine decrees, oracles, Od. 11.151, 297; παλαίφατα θ. 13.172, cf. Pi. I. 8(7).34: sg., E. IT 121.

II wonderful, mighty

generally, wonderful, mighty, ἀήρ Od. 7.143.—Cf. θεσπέσιος, θέσκελος.

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. θέσφατος (scan p. 591; entry #2559).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θέσφατος (scan p. 447; entry #3133).

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