Xanthias
Xanthias, typical name of a slave in Greek comedy (from his yellow wig), Ar. Ach. 243, Av. 656, V. 1, Ra. 1, cf. Aeschin. 2.157.
II a throw of the dice
a throw of the dice, Hsch., cf. Eub. 59.
The corpus record
Ξανθίας
*xanthias · ὁ
Xanthias, a throw of the dice
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Where it lives
- Meno 1 · 1.02/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Ξανθίᾳ · Xanthiai Plato, Meno 94
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.