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Benacus

Benacus · m

a deep and rough lake in

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Bēnācus — Lewis & Short

Bēnācus, i, m., = *bh/vakos, Strabo: lacus,

I a deep and rough lake in Gallia Transpadana, near Verona, through which the Mincius (Mincio) flows, now Lago di Garda, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 224; 9, 22, 38, § 75; and absol. Benacus, Verg. G. 2, 160; id. A. 10, 205.— Hence, Bēnācenses, ium, m., the people dwelling near Lake Benacus, Inscr. Grut. 260, 2.

In the wild

Benaco Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p1
Benace Vergil, Georgicon 2.160
Benacus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.22
Benacus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.19.p3
Benace Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.5.3
Benacus Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 25.107

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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