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The corpus record

θρέμμ-α

thremma · τό

nursling, creature

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Where it lives

  • Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
  • Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
  • Statesman 5 · 2.95/10k
  • Phaedrus 4 · 2.41/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
  • Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Timaeus 3 · 1.27/10k
  • Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
  • Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
  • Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

θρέμμ-α · thremm-a — LSJ

nursling, creature, animals

nursling, creature, θ. Νηρεΐδων, of dolphins, Arion 1.9; mostly of tame animals, esp. sheep and goats, X. Ages. 9.6, Oec. 20.23, Plb. 2.26.5, Ev.Jo. 4.12, etc.; τὰ ἐν ταῖς ἀγέλαις θ. Pl. Plt. 261d; τὰ ἀγελαῖα θ. ib. 264a; ὑηνὰ θ. Id. Lg. 819d; of game-cocks and quails, ὀρνίθων θ. ib. 789b: generally, animals, τοῖς ἡμέροις καὶ ἀγρίοις . . θ. Id. Criti. 118b, al.

2 domestic slaves

of men, S. OT 1143, Ph. 243; Χαρίτων θ. Ar. Ec. 973; δύσκολον τὸ θ. ἄνθρωπος Pl. Lg. 777b, cf. Tht. 174b; esp. of domestic slaves, = Lat. verna, τὸ Χρυσίππου θ. GDI 12321.14 (Delph.), cf. CIG 3113 (Teos).

3 creature, a swarm, kept

generally, creature, ἄπλατον θ. κἀπροσήγορον, of a lion, S. Tr. 1093 (cf. Pl. Chrm. 155e); of Cerberus, S. Tr. 1099; κακὰ θ., of a swarm of gnats, AP 5.150 (Mel.); θ. Σελινοῦντος, of a fish, Archestr. Fr. 12; Καρύστου θ., comic for a cup made at Carystus, Antiph. 182.3; as a term of reproach, θρέμματʼ οὐκ ἀνασχετά A. Th. 182; ὦ θρέμμʼ ἀναιδές S. El. 622, cf. Ar. Lys. 369; in periphr., ὕδρας θ., for ὕδρα, S. Tr. 574; νεογενῆ παίδων θρέμματα Pl. Lg. 790d; θρέμματα παλλακῶν kept mistresses, Plu. So

In the wild

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Where it came from

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