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Electra

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ēlectra — Lewis & Short

ēlectra, ae (

nom. with long

I a, Prop. 2, 14, 5 (3, 6, 5 M.); Ov. F. 4, 177; Cic. Arat. 36; acc.: Electrān, Ov. Tr. 2, 395; id. F. 4, 32; 174), f., = *)hle/ktra.

I Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the seven Pleiades, and mother of Dardanus by Jupiter, Ov. F. 4, 31 sq.; 174; Verg. A. 8, 135; Serv. ib. 7, 207; 10, 272; Hyg. Fab. 155 and 192. —Hence, ēlectrĭus, a, um, adj.: tellus, i. e. Samothrace, Val. Fl. 2, 431.—

II Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and sister of Orestes, Prop. 2, 14, 5 (3, 6, 5 M.); Hor. S. 2, 3, 140; Vell. 1, 1, 3; Juv. 8, 218; Hyg. Fab. 117; 122; Serv. Verg. A. 4, 471.—Also the name of a tragedy, Ov. Tr. 2, 395; Suet. Caes. 84.—

III A Danaïd, Hyg. Fab. 170.—

IV An Oceanid, wife of Thaumas, and mother of the Harpies, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 212; 241.

In the wild

Electram Ovid, Fasti 4.32
Electram Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.4
Electram Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.5.7
Electram Ovid, Fasti 4.174
Electran Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.140
Electraeque Silius Italicus, Punica 11.292

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