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Cercops

Cercops · m

A species of long-tailed apes

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

cercōps — Lewis & Short

cercōps, ōpis, m., = ke/rkwy.

I A species of long-tailed apes, Manil. 4, 664; cf. Amm. 22, 14, 3.—

II The name of a Pythagorean philosopher, Cic. N. D. 1, 38, 107.—

III Cercōpes, um, m., = *ke/rkwpes, a cunning, trickish people on the island of Pithecusa, changed by Jupiter into monkeys, Ov. M. 14, 92.

In the wild

Cercops Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.14.3

Where it came from

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

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