The corpus record — Latin

Caeneus

a girl

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Metamorphoses 9 · 1.16/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Caeneus — Lewis & Short

Caeneus (dissyl.), ĕos (

I gen., Stat. Th. 7, 644; voc. Caenĭ, Ov. M. 12, 470: Caeneu, id. ib. 12, 531), m., = *kaineu/s, orig. a girl, named Cænis, Ov. M. 12, 189; 12, 195; 12, 201; 12, 470 sq., the daughter of Elatus, afterwards changed by Neptune into a boy, he was subsequently present at the Calydonian hunt. and at the contest of the Centaurs and Lapithæ, and finally was metamorphosed into a bird. Ov. M. 12, 189; 12, 459 sq.; 12, 514 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 14; acc. to Verg. he again became a female. Verg. A. 6, 448 Serv.—

II A companion of Æneas, Verg. A. 9, 573.

In the wild

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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