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Calpe

Calpe · f

one of the pillars of Hercules in

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Punica 9 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Calpē — Lewis & Short

Calpē, ēs, f., = *ka/lph,

I one of the pillars of Hercules in Hispania Baetica, now Rock of Gibraltar, Mel. 1, 5, 3; 2, 6, 8; Plin. 3, prooem. § 4; 3, 1, 3, § 7; Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1: Ibera, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1254; Luc. 1, 555; 4, 71 (abl. scanned Calpĕ, Juv. 14, 279).—

II Derivv.

A Calpētā-nus, a, um, adj., of Calpe: gurges, Avien. Progn. 1620.—

B Calpētĭtānus, a, um, adj., of Calpe: vada, Avien. Arat. 1023.

In the wild

Calpe Ausonius, Epistularum 23.1
Calpen Silius Italicus, Punica 9.320
Calpe Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.1.p5
Calpe Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.1.p3
Calpe Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Calpen Silius Italicus, Punica 1.644

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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