chĕlȳ^drus — Lewis & Short
chĕlȳ^drus, i, m., = xe/ludros,
I a fetid serpent, living, for the most part, in water, Cels. 5, 27, 8; Verg. G. 3, 415; Ov. M. 7, 272; Luc. 9, 710; Sil. 3, 316; 8, 496; Prud. c. Symm. 1, 130.
The corpus record — Latin
chelydrus
chelydrus · m
a fetid serpent
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
- Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
- Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
- Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
- De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- chelydros Silius Italicus, Punica 2.536
- Chelydri Lucan, Pharsalia 9.711
- chelydris Silius Italicus, Punica 8.496
- chelydros Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.130
- chelydros Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.4.6
- chelydris Silius Italicus, Punica 3.316
6 of 13 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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