Πυρετός (Pyretos)

Πυρετός means “Pyretos — called by the Scythians *po/rata, described by Herodotus as a large river of Scythia, flowing…”.

Ancient Greek word, found 2 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2·18: … υ πάλιν Ἀπόλλωνος ἄλλο ἐν Ἤλιδι τιμώμενον. ἐνταῦθα Ἀπομυίῳ Διὶ θύουσιν Ἠλεῖοι· Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ Ἀπομυίῳ Ἡρακλεῖ καὶ Πυρετῷ δὲ καὶ Φόβῳ θύουσιν, οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς μετὰ τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἐγγράφουσιν. ἐῶ δὲ Ἀργείους· Ἀφροδίτην Τυμβωρύχ …

Epictetus, Discourses 1.19.6: τίς σοι θέλει ὅμοιος γενέσθαι, τίς σου ζηλωτὴς γίνεται ὡς Σωκράτους; ἀλλὰ δύναμαί σε τραχηλοκοπῆσαι. καλῶς λέγεις. ἐξελαθόμην ὅτι σε δεῖ θεραπεύειν καὶ ὡς πυρετὸν καὶ ὡς χολέραν καὶ βωμὸν στῆσαι, ὡς ἐν Ῥώμῃ Πυρετοῦ βωμός ἐστιν.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.