The corpus record — Latin

Caystros

Caystros · m

a river in Lydia

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Căystrŏs — Lewis & Short

Căystrŏs or -us, i, m., = *ka/u+stros,

I a river in Lydia, which rises in Mount Tmolus, and falls into the sea at Ephesus, celebrated for the great number of its swans, now Kara - Su: Caystros, Ov. M. 5, 386; Mel. 1, 17, 2: Caystrus, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 19; Verg. G. 1, 384; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 15; Ov. M. 2, 253; Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 115.—Hence, Căy-strĭus, a, um, adj., of Caystros: ales = cygnus, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 11.

In the wild

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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