ὁρμαθός

hormathos

string, chain

Appears 4 times across Plato's dialogues.

Frequency by work

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Ion 3
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Chapter ?

533e1
533e5
536a4
Republic 1
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Book III 1
Chapter ?

387a7

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὁρμαθός, ὁ, (ὅρμος) A. string, chain, or cluster of things hanging one from the other, as of beads or the links of a chain, Pl. Ion 533e; of bats, Od. 24.8; νεοττιῶν Arist. HA 559a8; κριβανωτῶν, ἰσχάδων, Ar. Pl. 765, Lys. 647 ; μελῶν Id. Ra. 914 ; ἁμαξῶν X. Cyr. 6.3.2 ; ἐνθουσιαζόντων, χορευτῶν, Pl. Ion 533e, 536a ; γραμματιδίων Thphr. Char. 6.8 ; perh. of a chain of reasoning, Polystr.p.9 W., cf. Phld. Rh. 1.186 S., Gal. 4.698; ἐρώτων Anacreont. 13.11. II. ὁ. ψάμμου a revolving sand-eddy, Arist. de An. 419b24.

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