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Cerberus

Cerberus · m

the three-

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Hercules 4 · 5.26/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Elegiae 4 · 1.58/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Cerbĕrus — Lewis & Short

Cerbĕrus (-ros), i, m., = *ke/rberos,

I the three- (acc. to others, the hundred-) headed monster Cerberus, Lucr. 3, 10; 3, 24; Verg. G. 4, 483; id. A. 6, 417; Prop. 3 (4), 5, 44; Hor. C. 2, 19, 29; 3, 11, 17; Ov. M. 4, 450; Hyg. Fab. 151 (cf. Verg. A. 6, 400; Hor. C. 2, 13, 34); Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10 al. —Hence,

II Cerbĕrĕus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Cerberus: facies canum, Lucr. 4, 735: os, Ov. M. 4, 501: latratus, Stat. S. 5, 1, 249: portae, i. e. of the Lower World, id. Th. 8, 56.

Where it came from

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