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Aetna

Aetna · f

The celebrated volcano of Sicily

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 9 · 12.91/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aetna — Lewis & Short

Aetna, ae (in Gr. form Aetnē, ēs, in good MSS. of Ov.), f., = *ai)/tnh [ai)/qw, to burn].

I The celebrated volcano of Sicily, now Mongibello or Ætna, in the interior of which, acc. to fable, was the forge of Vulcan, where the Cyclopes forged thunderbolts for Jupiter, and under which the latter buried the monster Typhōeus.—Form Aetna, Cic. Div. 2, 19; Ov. F. 4, 596; id. Tr. 5, 275.—Form Aetne, Ov. F. 4, 491 Riese.—

II A nymph in Sicily, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 584.—

III A town at the foot of Mt. Ætna, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23; 2, 3, 44.

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