The corpus record — Latin

Aeson

Aeson · m

a Thessalian prince

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Where it lives

Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Aesōn — Lewis & Short

Aesōn, ŏnis, m., = *ai)/swn,

I a Thessalian prince, brother of king Pelias, and father of Jason, who, according to fable, was in extreme old age transformed by the magic arts of Medea into a youth, Ov. M. 7, 2.— Whence,

I Aesŏnĭdes, ae, patr. m., = *ai)soni/dhs, a male descendant of Æson, i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 164: Phasias Aesoniden, Circe tenuisset Ulixem, id. A. A. 2, 103: mobilis Aesonide, id. H. 6, 109 al.—

II Aesŏnĭus, a, um, adj., Æsonian: heros, i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 156: domus, id. H. 12, 134.

In the wild

Aesonis Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.252
Aesone Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.4.23
Aesonis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.549
Aesone Statius, Thebais 5.416
Aesone Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.84
Aesone Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.149

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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