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Achelous

Achelous · m

A celebrated river of Middle Greece

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ăchĕlōŭs — Lewis & Short

ăchĕlōŭs, i, m., *)axelw=os.

I A celebrated river of Middle Greece, which, rising in Pindus, separates Aetolia from Acarnania, and empties into the Ionian Sea, now the Aspropotamo, Mel. 2, 3, 10; Plin. 4, 1, 2 al.—Hence,

II The river-god Achelous, Ov. M. 8, 549 sq.; 10, 8 sq.; Prop. 2, 34, 33 al.

In the wild

Acheloe Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.560
Acheloo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.85.p1
Acheloe Ovid, Fasti 5.343
Acheloon Ovid, Amores 3.6.103
Achelous Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Achelous Statius, Thebais 7.553

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Where it came from

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