cătōblĕpas — Lewis & Short
cătōblĕpas, ae, m., = katw=bley or katwble/pwn (that looks down),
I a wild animal in Ethiopia, perhaps a species of buffalo, or the gnu, a species of antelope, Mel. 3, 9, 9; Plin. 8, 21, 32, § 77.
The corpus record — Latin
catoblepas
catoblepas · m
a wild animal in Ethiopia
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- catoblepas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.21.p2
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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