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Callisto

Callisto · f

daughter of the Arcadian king Lycaon

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Callisto — Lewis & Short

Callisto, ūs (ōnis, Serv. ad. f., = *kallistw/,

Verg. G. 1, 67),

I daughter of the Arcadian king Lycaon (hence, Lycaonis, Ov. F. 2, 173: virgo Tegeaea, id. ib. 2, 167: Maenalia, id. ib. 2, 192: virgo Nonacrina, id. M. 2, 409), and mother of Arcas by Jupiter; changed by Juno, on account of jealousy, into a she-bear, and then raised to the heavens by Jupiter in the form of the constellation Helice or Ursa Major, Hyg. Fab. 176; 177; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 23; Col. 11, 2, 15; Ov. F. 2, 156 sq.; cf. id. M. 2, 401 sq.—Acc. Callisto, Hyg. Astr. 2, 1.—Dat. Callisto Lycaonidi, Cat. 66, 66.—Abl. Callisto, Hyg. Fab. 155.

In the wild

Callistus Tacitus, Annales 12.p2
Callistus Tacitus, Annales 11.p32
Callistus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.47.9
Callistus Tacitus, Annales 11.p32
Callisto Propertius, Elegiae 2.28a.25
Callisto Ovid, Fasti 2.156

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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