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Daphnis

Daphnis · m

A son of Mercury, a beautiful young shepherd in Sicily, the inventor of pastoral songs, and hence a favorite of Pan

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Where it lives

Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Daphnis — Lewis & Short

Daphnis, ĭdis, m., *da/fnis.

I A son of Mercury, a beautiful young shepherd in Sicily, the inventor of pastoral songs, and hence a favorite of Pan, Ov. M. 4, 277.—Acc. usu. Daphnim, Verg. E. 2, 26; 5, 20; 7, 7 et saep: Daphnin, id. ib. 5, 52; Prop. 2, 34, 68 (3, 32, 68 M.).—

II A grammarian, sportively called, in allusion to the preceding, *pano\s a)ga/phma, Suet. Gramm. 3; Plin. 7, 39, 40, § 128.

In the wild

Daphnidis Vergil, Eclogues 3
Daphnin Silius Italicus, Punica 14.466
Daphnin Vergil, Eclogues 5
Daphnidis Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.277
Daphnidem Historia Augusta, Tyranni Triginta 18
Daphnin Propertius, Elegiae 2.34b.44

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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