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Deucalion

Deucalion · m

son of Prometheus, king of Phthia, in Thessaly, and husband of Pyrrha

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Where it lives

Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

Deucălĭon — Lewis & Short

Deucălĭon, ōnis, m., *deukali/wn,

I son of Prometheus, king of Phthia, in Thessaly, and husband of Pyrrha. He is famous on account of the deluge sent in his days by Jupiter, and as the progenitor of a new race of men, Ov. M. 1, 318 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 153; Just. 2, 6; Verg. G. 1, 62 al.: nimiae Deucalionis aquae, Deucalion's deluge, Ov. F. 4, 794; Prop. 2, 32, 53 (3, 30, 53 M.).—Hence, Deucălĭōnēus, a, um, adj., of Deucalion: undae, Ov. M. 7, 356: imbres, Luc. 1, 653: cautes, Col. poet. 10, 67.

In the wild

Deucalion Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.318
Deucalion Ovid, Epistulae 15.167
Deucalion Martial, Epigrammata 5.53.4
Deucalion Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.366
Deucalion Ovid, Epistulae 15.170
Deucalion Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p183

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Where it came from

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