Byblus — Lewis & Short
Byblus (-ŏs), i, f., = *bu/blos,
I a very ancient town in Phœnicia celebrated for the worship of Adonis, now Dschebail, Mel. 1, 12, 3; Plin. 5, 20, 17, § 78; Curt. 4, 1, 15.
The corpus record — Latin
Byblus
Byblus · f
a very ancient town in Phœnicia celebrated for the worship of Adonis
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Where it lives
- Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
- Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Byblis Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.663
- Byblon Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.1.15
- Bybli Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.651
- Byblis Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.454
- Byblos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.20.p1
- Byblis Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.455
6 of 10 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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