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Aeolus

Aeolus · m

The god of the winds

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Epistulae 4 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Argonautica 5 · 1.35/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k

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

What it meant

Aeŏlus — Lewis & Short

Aeŏlus, i, m., = *ai)/olos.

I The god of the winds, son of Jupiter (or Hippotas) and of Menalippa, ruler of the islands between Italy and Sicily, where he kept the winds shut up in caverns, and, at the bidding of Jupiter, let them loose or recalled them, Verg. A. 1, 52: Aeolon Hippotaden, cohibentem carcere ventos, Ov. M. 14, 224. —

II A king in Thessaly, son of Hellen and Doreïs, grandson of Deucalion, father of Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, etc., Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 585.

In the wild

Aeolus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.417
Aeolis Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.573
Aeolus Vergil, Aeneid 1.76
Aeolon Statius, Thebais 9.765
Aeole Statius, Thebais 9.767
Aeolus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.4.18

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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