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τῐθᾰσ-ός

tithasos

to tame, cultivate

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Where it lives

Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

1. τιθασός · tithasos — Beekes

τιθασός [adj.] ‘tamed, domestic, cultivated, mild (A. Eu. 356 [lyr], S. Fr. 866, PL, Arist.). *DER τιθασ-εύω (also with ἐκ-, mpo-) [v.] ‘to tame, cultivate’ (Pl, D., X., Arist.), with -eia [f.] ‘taming’ (Pl.), -ευσις [f.] ‘id’ (Plu.), -evpata [n.pl.] ‘arrangements for taming’ (Porph.), -ευτής [m.] (Ar.), -ebtwp [m.] (Opp.) ‘tamer, domesticator’, -ευτικός [adj.] ‘fit for taming, easy to tame’ (Arist.); … — [Beekes, s.v. τιθασός, p. 1533]

2. τιθασός · tithasos — Chantraine

τιθασός : sapprivoisé, domestique », s'agissant en principe d'animaux (Æsch. Eu. 356 au figuré pour un meurtre domestique, 5. fr. 866, Arist., Thphr., etc.}, plus rarement peut se dire de plantes cultivées (Plu.), de personnes accommodantes ou dociles (AP 5, 177, Plu.). Verbe dénominatif rÜxostw «apprivoiser, domestiquer », parfois « cultiver » (PI, D., etc.) ; X. Œc. 7, 10 : le mot est employé par Ischomaque qui … — [Chantraine, s.v. τιθασός, p. 1135]

3. τῐθᾰσ-ός · tithas-os — LSJ

tamed, domesticated, tame, domestic, tractable, docile, cultivated, reared in, gardens, reclaimed

tamed, domesticated; esp. of animals, tame, domestic, χήν S. Fr. 866, cf. Epicr. 3.24; opp. ἄγριος, Pl. Plt. 264a; πάντων τιθασσότατον (sic codd., v. ad fin.) καὶ ἡμερώτατον τῶν ἀγρίων ὁ ἐλέφας Arist. HA 630b18; of persons, tractable, docile, AP 5.177 (Mel.), Plu. Adul. 2.51f, al.; of plants, cultivated, reared in gardens, Id. Cor. 3. Adv., -σῶς πρὸς ἡμᾶς σχεῖν to be reclaimed, Pl. Ti. 77a; τ. ἔχειν πρὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους Arist. HA 608b31; ἐπιτιμᾶν τινι cj. in Ph. 1.676.

2 domestic, intestine

metaph., domestic, intestine, Ἄρης τιθασὸς ὤν A. Eu. 356 (lyr.). (The spelling with single σ is found in the best codd., e.g. BT of Pl. Plt. l.c., and papyri (PCair.Zen. 75.5 (iii B.C.), Phld. Lib. p.40 O., and the Philo papyrus), and corroborated by the short quantity of the second syllable in verse; the form τιθασσός (τιθασσεύω etc.) is freq. in medieval codd., as of Arist. Il.cc., Porph. Gaur. 4.4, 4.8, al., Chor. p.96 B., cf. Sup. τιθασσότατος Arist. supr. cit., but should be rejected.)

In the wild

τιθασὸς · tithasos Aeschylus, Eumenides 352–356
τιθασὸς · tithasos Aeschylus, Eumenides (DIORISIS sentence 185)
τιθασῷ · tithasōi Plato, Statesman 264
τιθασῶς · tithasōs Plato, Timaeus 77 (DIORISIS sentence 727)

Where it came from

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