1. τλήμων · tlēmōn — Chantraine
τλήμων, τλῆναι, voir ταλάσσαι, τμήγω, Voir τέμνω. — [Chantraine, s.v. τλήμων, p. 1142]
The corpus record
τλήμων
tlemon
τλῆναι, voir ταλάσσαι, τμήγω, Voir τέμνω
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Where it lives
- Orestes 12 · 12.24/10k
- Bacchae 9 · 11.97/10k
- Hecuba 8 · 11.17/10k
- Helen 10 · 10.22/10k
- Electra 7 · 9.26/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 8 · 8.65/10k
- Ion 7 · 7.65/10k
- Trojan Women 5 · 7.06/10k
- Philoctetes 6 · 6.82/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 7 · 6.76/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
- Electra 5 · 5.76/10k
Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. τλήμων · tlēmōn — LSJ
poet. Adj., used by X. and Aret. (v. infr.):
I patient, steadfast, stout-hearted
patient, steadfast, stout-hearted, ὁ τλήμων Ὀδυσεύς Il. 10.231, 498 (to whom a τλήμων θυμός is ascribed, 5.670); θαρσαλέοι καὶ τ. 21.430; ψυχὴν καὶ θυμὸν τλήμονα παρθέμενος Tyrt. 12.18; τλάμονι ψυχᾷ Pi. P. 1.48; τλήμονες, οἷον ἀγῶνα . . τελέσαντες . . ψυχὰς . . ὠλέσατʼ Ath.Mitt. 57.142 (Athens, v. B.C.); τλήμων οὖσʼ ἀπʼ εὐτόλμου φρενός A. Ag. 1302; of patients, Aret. CD 1.4; τ. ἐς παιδείην Id. SD 2.6: Sup. -εστάτη E. Heracl. 570.
2 overbold, reckless
in bad sense, overbold, reckless, Thgn. 196; τλάμονι καὶ πανούργῳ χειρί A. Ch. 384 (lyr.); τλημονεστάτη γυνή S. El. 439, cf. 275, A. Ch. 596 (lyr.); τλάμονι θυμῷ E. Med. 865 (lyr.).
II wretched, miserable
wretched, miserable, of persons, A. Pr. 614, S. Ph. 161 (anap.), Ar. Pax 723, X. An. 3.1.29, Mem. 2.1.30: c. gen., ὦ τλάμων ὑμεναίων E. Hipp. 554 (lyr.); θανάτου τλήμων Ar. Th. 1072 (anap.).
2 wretched
of conditions, acts, words, etc., τλήμονες φυγαί, τύχαι, E. Hipp. 1177, HF 921 (lyr.); τλημονέστατος λόγος Id. Hec. 562; ὁδὸς τλημονεστάτη, -τέρα, Id. Med. 1067, 1068: sts. also, as we use wretched, in a disparaging sense, τ. γαστρὸς ἔριθον h.Merc. 296; οἶνος Call. Epigr. 62.
III patiently
Adv. τλημόνως patiently, A. Ch. 748, E. Supp. 947, Gal. 14.213.
2 miserably
miserably, E. Tr. 40, Hsch.
In the wild
- τλήμων · tlēmōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1302
- τλῆμον · tlēmon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1321
- τλήμων · tlēmōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1587–1589
- τλάμων · tlamōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 506–507
- τλάμονι · tlamoni Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 382–385
- τλήμων · tlēmōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 932–934
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τλήμων (scan p. 1541; entry #6096).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τλήμων (scan p. 1142; entry #8045).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τλήμων (scan p. 1879; entry #5691).
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