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Bubastis

Bubastis · f

A town in Egypt

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Būbastis — Lewis & Short

Būbastis, is, f., = *bou/bastis.

I A town in Egypt, on the Pelusian arm of the Nile, now Tel-Basta (i.e. Hill of Bubastis), in the vicinity of the village Benalhassar, Mel. 1, 9, 9.—Hence, Būbastītes nŏ-mŏs, *boubasti/ths nomo/s, Strab., Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 49; Mel. 1, 9, 9.—

II The goddess Bubastis, who was worshipped there; corresponding to Diana, Ov. M. 9, 691; cf. Hdt. 2, 137; 2, 156.—Hence, Būbastius, a, um, adj., of Bubastis: sacra, Grat. Cyn. 42; gen. plur. BVBASTIVM, Inscr. Orell. 5974.

In the wild

Bubastis Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.691

Where it came from

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