armed with a sword, sword in hand
armed with a sword, sword in hand, E. Or. 1272, 1346, al.: also in later Prose, Phld. Rh. 2.89 S. (dub.), Ap.Ty. Ep. 36, Hdn. 7.5.3, Iamb. VP 25.113, Malch. p.410 D.
The corpus record
ξῐφήρης
xipheres
armed with a sword, sword in hand
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Where it lives
- Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
- Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ξιφήρης · xiphērēs Euripides, Electra 225 (DIORISIS sentence 86)
- ξιφήρης · xiphērēs Euripides, Ion *qera/pwn (DIORISIS sentence 748)
- ξιφήρεις · xiphēreis Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 799)
- ξιφήρεις · xiphēreis Euripides, Orestes 1 (DIORISIS sentence 872)
- ξιφήρης · xiphērēs Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 1130)
- ξιφήρεις · xiphēreis Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 933)
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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.