The corpus record — Latin

Caphareus

Caphareus · m

a rocky promontory on the southern coast of Eubœa

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Căphāreus — Lewis & Short

Căphāreus or Căphēreus (trisyl.), ei, m., = *kafareu/s,

I a rocky promontory on the southern coast of Eubœa, where the homeward-bound fleet of the Greeks was wrecked, being misled by Nauplius, king of the island, and father of Palamedes, who had been slain before Troy; now Capo del Oro, or Xylofago, Serv. ad Verg. A. 11, 260; Hyg. Fab. 116; Ov. M. 14, 472; 14, 481.— Gr. acc. Căphārĕă, Ov. M. 14, 472; id. Tr. 1, 1, 83; voc. Caphareu, Val. Fl. 1, 371.—Form Caphereus, Verg. A. 11, 260; Mel. 2, 7, 9; Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 64.—

II Derivv.

A Căphārēus, a, um (four syll.), adj., = *kafh/reios, of Caphareus: aqua, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 36.—Scanned Căphārĕa; saxa, Prop. 3 (4), 7, 39. Hyg. Fab. 116.—

B Căphā-ris, ĭdis, f. adj., = *kafhri/s, of Caphareus: petrae, Sen. Herc. Oet. 805.

In the wild

Capherei Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 354
Caphereo Silius Italicus, Punica 14.143
Capherei Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.1
Caphereus Statius, Achilleis 1.93
Capherea Propertius, Elegiae 3.7.67
Capherea Ovid, Remedia Amoris 735

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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