LOGOI

The corpus record

θολερ-ός

tholeros

muddy, foul, turbid

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Where it lives

  • Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
  • De Somno et Vigilia 2 · 6.73/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
  • Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
  • Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
  • Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
  • History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

muddy, foul, turbid

muddy, foul, turbid, opp. καθαρός or λαμπρός, prop. of troubled water, Hdt. 4.53, Hp. Aër. 8, Th. 2.102; θ. καὶ πηλώδης Pl. Phd. 113b: metaph., λαμπρὸν δὲ θολερῷ δῶμα συμμείξας E. Supp. 222; θ. οὖρα Hp. Epid. 1.7; ἀήρ Pl. Ti. 58d (Sup. -ώτατος) ; αἷμα Arist. Somn.Vig. 458a14 (Sup.); χυμοί Thphr. CP 6.3.4 (Comp.); νεφέλαι AP 9.277 (Antiphil.): χρώς Ael. NA 14.9; πλίνθος Theoc. 16.62; δύσμορφον ἡ ὗς καὶ θολερόν Plu. QConv. 2.670a.

2

θ. πνεῦμα dub. l. in Hp. Prorrh. 1.39 (v. θαλερός).

II troubled by passion, madness, troubled, turbid, passionate

metaph., troubled by passion or madness, θολεροὶ λόγοι troubled words of passion (compared to a torrent), A. Pr. 885 (anap.); θολερῷ χειμῶνι νοσήσας with turbid storm of madness, S. Aj. 206 (anap.); θολερῷ κυνόδοντι with passionate tooth, Nic. Th. 130 codd. (θαλερῷ cj. Schneider). Adv. -ρῶς dub. in Com.Adesp. 865.

In the wild

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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.

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