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Aeetes

Aeetes · m

king of Colchis

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aeētes — Lewis & Short

Aeētes, Aeētas, or Aeēta, ae, m., = *ai)h/ths,

I king of Colchis, acc. to the fable, son of Sol and Persa, daughter of Oceanus; father of Medea, by whose aid the Argonauts took from him the golden fleece, Cic. N. D. 3, 21; Ov. H. 12, 29, 51; Hyg. 3, 22 and 23; Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 140 and 141.— Hence, Aeētĭăs, iădis, patr. f., daughter of Æetes, i. e. Medea, Ov. M. 7, 9; 326.— Aeētīnē, ēs, f., the same as preced. (from Aeetes, as Nerine from Nereus), Ov. H. 6, 103.—Aeētis, ĭdos, patr. f., = Aeetias, daughter of Æetes, Val. Fl. 8, 233; Albin. 2, 110.—Aeētĭus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Æetes, = Aeetaeus, Val. Fl. 8, 379.

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