The corpus record

ζάθεος

zatheos

very divine, sacred

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Where it lives

Theogony 7 · 10.16/10k
Trojan Women 5 · 7.06/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

very divine, sacred

very divine, sacred, of places favoured by the gods, Il. 1.38, al. (not in Od.), h.Ap. 223; ζ. Πύλος, Ἰσθμός, Pi. P. 5.70, I. 1.32, cf. B. 2.7; νᾶσος Id. 5.10; Πέλοπος δάπεδα Id. 10.24; ἔναυλοι E. Ba. 121 (lyr.), etc.; Ὤλενος A. Fr. 284; of things, ἄνεμοι Hes. Th. 253; χρόνος Pi. Pae. 6.5; κλῇδες, σελᾶναι, E. Tr. ll.cc.; ποταμοί Ar. Nu. 283 (lyr.); μολπαί Id. Ra. 385; τιμαί Castorio 1; later of persons, Ἀπόλλων AP 9.525.7. Adv. -έως Hdn.Gr. 1.514.

In the wild

ζαθέην · zatheēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3352)
ζάθεοί · zatheoi Euripides, Bacchae 120–125
ζαθέαις · zatheais Euripides, Ion 1 (DIORISIS sentence 66)
ζάθεον · zatheon Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 33)
ζαθέων · zatheōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 773)
ζαθέων · zatheōn Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 772)

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