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Admetus

Admetus · m

a king of Pherœ

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Where it lives

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

What it meant

Admētus — Lewis & Short

Admētus, i, m.

I In mythology, a king of Pherœ, in Thessaly, the husband of Alcestis, whose sheep Apollo was condemned by Jupiter to tend for a long time, Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 9; id. A. 7, 761 (cf. Alcestis).—
II In hist., a king of the Molossi, the friend and protector of Themistocles, Nep. Them. 8.

In the wild

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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