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Elephantine

Elephantine · f

a small but very fertile island of the Nile

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Where it lives

Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ĕlĕphantīne — Lewis & Short

ĕlĕphantīne, ēs, f., = *)elefanti/nh,

I a small but very fertile island of the Nile, in the Thebaid, with a city of the same name, now Jezyret-Assuan, Mel. 1, 9, 2; 9; Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6; Tac. A. 2, 61; Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 163.—Also called Elĕphantis, ĭdis, f., Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 59; Vitr. 8, 2, 6.

In the wild

Elephantinen Tacitus, Annales 2.p62
Elephantinen Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.2

Where it came from

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