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Cassandra

Cassandra · f

a daughter of Priam and Hecuba

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 6 · 10.79/10k
Troades 4 · 5.87/10k
De Divinatione 4 · 1.45/10k
Aeneid 7 · 1.11/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Cassandra — Lewis & Short

Cassandra (acc. to ae, f., = *kassa/ndra,

Quint. 1, 4, 16; cf. Alexanter; in the most ancient period written in the Etruscan manner, Cassantra),

I a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who continually proclaimed the approaching evil, but was believed by no one. After the destruction of Troy she became the bondmaid of Agamemnon, and was murdered with him by Clytœmnestra, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 85; Verg. A. 2 404; 2, 246 Serv.; 3, 187; 5, 636; Ov. H. 16, 119; Hyg. Fab. 93 and 117.

In the wild

Cassandra Seneca, Agamemnon 1
Cassandra Seneca, Troades 1
Cassandram Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p9
Cassandra Cicero, De Divinatione 1.67
Cassandra Cicero, De Divinatione 1.85
Cassandra Cicero, De Divinatione 2.112.p2

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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