The corpus record

θέσπ-ις

thespis · ὁ

filled with the words of God, inspired

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

filled with the words of God, inspired

filled with the words of God, inspired, Hom. only in Od. in acc. θέσπιν; ἀοιδός 17.385; ἀοιδή 1.328, 8.498, E. Med. 425 (lyr.); also θέσπιν αὐδάν S. Ichn. 244 (lyr.).

2 wondrous, awful

generally, wondrous, awful, θέσπις ἄελλα h.Ven. 208.

θέσπιδες· θυσίαι, θεοσέβειαι, Hsch.

In the wild

θέσπιν · thespin Theogony 31–32
θέσπιν · thespin Odyssey 1.328
θέσπιν · thespin Odyssey 17.385
θέσπιν · thespin Odyssey 8.498
θέσπιν · thespin Sophocles, Ichneutae 247–250

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.

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