The corpus record — Latin

Echion2

Echion2 · n

a medicament prepared from the ashes of adders

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

1. ĕchĭon — Lewis & Short

ĕchĭon, i, n., = e)/xion,

I a medicament prepared from the ashes of adders, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 119.

2. ĕchīon — Lewis & Short

ĕchīon, ŏnis, m.

I One of the heroes who sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; the husband of Agave and father of Pentheus, Ov. M. 3, 126; 10, 686; Stat. Th. 4, 569; Hyg. Fab. 178.—Hence: Echione natus, for Pentheus, Ov. M. 3, 526.—

B Derivv.

1 Echīŏnĭdes, ae, m., the son of Echion, i. e. Pentheus, Ov. M. 3, 513 and 701.—

2 Echīŏnĭus, a, um, adj., meton. for Cadmean or Theban: hydrus, i. e. killed by Cadmus, Val. Fl. 8, 343: dens, id. 7, 554: aula, id. 7, 301; cf. arces, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 53: nomen, Verg. A. 12, 515; cf. plebs, Stat. Th. 1, 169: Bacchus, Pall. Insit. 45.—

II A son of Mercury, an Argonaut, and a sharer in the Calydonian hunt, Ov. M. 8, 311; Hyg. Fab. 14.—Hence,

B Echīŏ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of Echion: lacerto, Ov. M. 8, 345.—

III A celebrated Greek painter, Cic. Par. 5, 2, 37; id. Brut. 18, 70.

In the wild

Echion Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.126
Echion Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.734
Echion Petronius, Satyricon 45
Echion Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.311
Echion Statius, Thebais 10.494
Echion Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 52.104

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.