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θνητός

thnetos

liable to death, mortal

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Where it lives

  • Theogony 20 · 29.04/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 16 · 27.21/10k
  • Bacchae 14 · 18.61/10k
  • Works and Days 10 · 17.35/10k
  • Heracles 12 · 15.33/10k
  • Epinomis 9 · 14.27/10k
  • Timaeus 30 · 12.69/10k
  • Critias 6 · 12.14/10k
  • Ion 10 · 10.93/10k
  • Persians 5 · 9.82/10k
  • Shield of Heracles 3 · 9.27/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 8 · 8.96/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

liable to death, mortal, mortals, mortal women, mortal creatures

liable to death, mortal, opp. ἀθάνατος, freq. in Hom., Od. 5.213, al.; θ. ἄνδρες Hes. Th. 967; οὐδὲν . . θνητὸν ἐόν Hdt. 8.98; ζῷα πάντα θ. καὶ φυτά Pl. Sph. 265c: as Subst., θνητοί mortals, Od. 19.593, etc.; θνηταί mortal women, 5.213; πάντων τῶν θ. of all mortal creatures, Hdt. 1.216, 2.68; εἴ τις φθόγγος (φθόγγον cod., but θ. is only used of living persons) εἰσακούεται θνητῶν παρʼ Ἅιδῃ E. HF 491: Comp., ἐν θνητῷ ὄντες, ἔτι θνητοτέρους ἑαυτοὺς ποιοῦντες Porph. Abst. 4.20: Sup., θνητότατος πάντ

2 befitting mortals, human

of things, befitting mortals, human, ἔργματα E. Ba. 1069; θνατὰ θνατοῖσι πρέπει Pi. I. 5(4).16; θνατὰ χρὴ τὸν θνατὸν . . φρονεῖν Epich. [263], cf. S. Tr. 473; τὸ δαιμόνιον μεταξύ ἐστι θεοῦ τε καὶ θνητοῦ Pl. Smp. 202e.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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