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Egeria

Egeria · f

a nymph

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ēgĕrĭa — Lewis & Short

ēgĕrĭa (Aeg-), ae, f., = *)hgeri/a,

I a nymph or Camoena celebrated in Roman mythology, the wife and instructress of Numa, with two sacred groves and fountains, the one near Rome, opposite the Porta Capena, the other in the neighborhood of Aricia, Liv. 1, 19; 21; Val. Max. 1, 2, 1; Ov. F. 3, 154; 261 sq.; 4, 669; id. M. 15, 482 sq.; Verg. A. 7, 763; 775; Juv. 3, 12 sq.

2. Egeria — Walde–Hofmann

Egeria, -ae f. „als Geburtsgöttin verehrte Quellnymphe* (von Paul. Fest. 77 volkset. mit &-gerere zusammengebracht): etr., s. Schulze EN. 123, Wissowa Rel.? 248f. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Egeria, p. 427]

In the wild

Egeria Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.21.3
Egeriae Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.1.2.3
Egeria Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.4.19
Egeriae Silius Italicus, Punica 4.367
Egeria Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p29
Egeriae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.304

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Egeria (scan p. 216; entry #3348).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Egeria (scan p. 427; entry #997).

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