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Καύνιος

*kaunios

of, from Caunus, Caunus

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

Καύνιος · Kaunios — LSJ

of, from Caunus, Caunus

of or from Caunus (in Caria), Hdt. 1.172, etc.; ἡ K. βοῦς, of labour in vain—for this cow overturned the pail after being milked, App.Prov. 3.6; but K. ἔρως, of illicit love, from Caunus, brother and lover of Byblis, Arist. Rh. 1402b3.

In the wild

Καύνιος · Kaunios Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
Καυνίους · Kaunious Herodotus, Histories 1.171.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1195)
Καύνιοι · Kaunioi Herodotus, Histories 1.172.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1209)
Καύνιοι · Kaunioi Herodotus, Histories 1.172.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1212)
Καύνιοι · Kaunioi Herodotus, Histories 1.176.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1244)

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