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Celaenae

Celaenae · f

a town of Phrygia

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Where it lives

In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Cĕlaenae — Lewis & Short

Cĕlaenae, ārum, f., = *kelainai/,

I a town of Phrygia, on the Mœander, where, acc. to the fable, occurred the contest of Marsyas with Apollo, Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 106; Liv. 38, 13, 5 sq.; Curt. 3, 1, 1; Luc. 3, 206; Stat. Th. 4, 186.—Hence,

II Cĕlaenaeus, a. um, adj., of or pertaining to Celœnœ or to Marsyas: concubinus, i. e. of Atthis, who was born in Celænæ, and loved by Cybele, Mart. 5, 41' amores, id. 14, 204: Marsyas, id. 10, 62: buxus, i. e. tibia, Stat. Th. 2, 666.

In the wild

Celaenas Statius, Thebais 4.186
Celaenas Ovid, Fasti 4.363
Celaenas Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.334
Celaenis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.13.6
Celaenas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.29.p1
Celaenae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.32.p2

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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