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Charon

Charon · m

Charon

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Chăron — Lewis & Short

Chăron, ontis (ōnis, m., = *xa/rwn.

Fulg. Myth. 1),

I Charon, a ferryman in the Lower World, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 43; Verg. A. 6, 299; id. Cul. 2, 15; Sen. Herc. Fur. 771. —Hence,

B Chărōnēus, a, um, adj., of Charon, of the Lower World: scrobes, deep, Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208.—

II A Theban, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.

Where it came from

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