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Cerco

Cerco · m

a Roman cognomen

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Where it lives

What it meant

1. Cerco — Lewis & Short

Cerco, ōnis, m.,

I a Roman cognomen, Liv. 42, 6 init.

2. Cercўo — Lewis & Short

Cercўo, ŏnis, m., = *kerkuw/n,

I a celebrated robber in Attica, conquered and slain by Theseus at Eleusis, Ov. M. 7, 439; Hyg. Fab. 187; Gell. 15, 21, 1.—Acc. Gr. Cercyona, Stat. Th. 12, 577.—Hence,
II Cercўŏnē-us, a, um, adj., pertaining to Cercyon: corpora, Ov. Ib. 410.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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