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τίσις

tisis

épopée au sens d

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Where it lives

Letter 7 1 · 12.84/10k
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 1 · 5.47/10k
Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k
Aegineticus 1 · 3.44/10k
Alcibiades 1 3 · 2.93/10k
Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Rhetoric 6 · 1.4/10k
Against Timocrates 2 · 1.37/10k
On the Peace 1 · 1.26/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. τίσις · tisis — Chantraine

τίσις f. «paiement, châtiment, ven dans l'épopée au sens d'« observer, remarquer », qui a pu donner naissance en grec à l'emploi de «châtier, punir»; ce sens se trouve en tout cas bien attesté en skr. dans le présent thématique céyate « venger, punir », qui pourrait répondre à l'actif impér. ἀπυ-τειέτω en arcadien, à moins que cette forme ne soit une création du grec ; l’avest. ἃ un thème verbal kay-, avec … — [Chantraine, s.v. τίσις, p. 1140]

2. τίσις · tisis — LSJ

payment by way of return, recompense, retribution, vengeance, retribution for, punishment for, for, retribution for, avengers

payment by way of return or recompense, retribution, vengeance, Od. 2.76, Il. 22.19, Hes. Th. 210, Alcm. 23.36, etc.; ἐκ γὰρ Ὀρέσταο τ. ἔσσεται Ἀτρεΐδαο retribution for his murder, Od. 1.40; freq. in Hdt., τίσιν δοῦναί τινος suffer punishment for an act, 8.76; τίσιν τινὶ ἐκτεῖσαι 6.84; τ. ἥξει 2.152, cf. S. OC 228 (anap.); τιμωρίη τε καὶ τ. Hdt. 7.8.αʹ; πρὸς κασιγνήτου τίσιν for him, S. OC 1329; τῶν τοιούτων τ. retribution for such things, Pl. Lg. 870d: pl., Ὀροίτεα Πολυκράτεος τίσιες μετῆλθον (

2 power to repay, requite

power to repay or requite, both in bad and good sense, φίλων Thgn. 337, cf. 345.

In the wild

τίσιν · tisin Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2379)
τίσιν · tisin Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..59 (DIORISIS sentence 708)
τίσι · tisi Aristotle, Politics 1288a (DIORISIS sentence 1387)
τίσιν · tisin Aristotle, Politics 1288b (DIORISIS sentence 1392)
τίσιν · tisin Aristotle, Politics 1289b (DIORISIS sentence 1417)
τίσι · tisi Aristotle, Politics 1296b (DIORISIS sentence 1653)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τίσις (scan p. 1140; entry #8027).

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