The corpus record

ζηλ-ωτός

zelotos

enviable, to be deemed happy, to be envied, enviable, blessed

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Where it lives

Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Rhetoric 3 · 0.7/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

enviable

enviable, of things, σοφία Pl. Hp.Mi. 368b; καλὰ καὶ ζ. ἐπιγράμματα D. 22.72: Comp., Isoc. 6.95; ζηλωτὸν ὁ πλοῦτος Lycurg. Fr. 97.

2 to be deemed happy, to be envied

to be deemed happy, to be envied, of persons, Thgn. 455, S. Ant. 1161; τινι by one, A. Pers. 710 (troch.), E. Med. 1035, Pl. Smp. 197d, etc.; ὑπό τινος Isoc. 5.69: c. gen. rei, θῆκέ μιν ζαλωτὸν ὁμόφρονος εὐνᾶς Pi. O. 7.6; ζ. τῆς εὐνοίας Plu. Pomp. 61: c. dat., Id. Luc. 38.

3 enviable, blessed

of conditions, enviable, blessed, αἰών Simon. 71, E. Med. 243; πότμος Arist. Fr. 675; ζηλωτότατος βίος Ar. Nu. 464 (lyr.); γάμος Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.289b, etc.

In the wild

ζηλωτὸς · zēlōtos Aeschylus, Persians 709–712
ζηλωτοτέραν · zēlōtoteran Aristotle, Politics 1315b (DIORISIS sentence 2228)
ζηλωτὰ · zēlōta Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ζηλωτοὶ · zēlōtoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ζηλωτοί · zēlōtoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ζηλωτὰς · zēlōtas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1929)

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