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Eos

Eos · f

the dawn

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Where it lives

De Bello Hispaniensi 10 · 16.52/10k
De bello Gallico 60 · 11.7/10k
Aulularia 6 · 8.69/10k
Mostellaria 8 · 8.31/10k
Cistellaria 4 · 7.65/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Amphitruo 7 · 7.12/10k
Andria 7 · 7.11/10k
Hecyra 6 · 6.66/10k
Heautontimorumenos 7 · 6.37/10k
Persa 5 · 6.36/10k
Epistulae 15 · 5.87/10k

Densest 12 of 117 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ēōs — Lewis & Short

ēōs (only in f., = *)hw/s,

nom.),

I the dawn (pure Lat. Aurora), Ov. F. 3, 877; 4, 389; Sen. Herc. Oet. 615.—

B Meton., the East, the Orient, Luc. 9, 544.—

II Derivv. ē^ōus, a, um.

A Adj.

1 Belonging to the morning, morning-: Atlantides absconduntur, i. e. disappear, set in the morning, Verg. G. 1, 221.—More freq.,

2 Belonging to the east, eastern, orient (a favorite word of the Aug. poets): domus Aurorae, Prop. 2, 14, 10 (3, 10, 8 M.): equus, id. 4 (5), 3, 10: Arabes, Tib. 3, 2, 24; cf.: domus Arabum, Verg. G. 2, 115: acies, id. A. 1, 489: caelum, Ov. M. 4, 197: ripa, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 21. mare, Tib. 2, 2, 16; cf. fluctus, Hor. Epod. 2, 51: partes, id. C. 1, 35, 31; Ov. F. 1, 140; cf. orbis, id. ib. 3, 466; 5, 557 et saep.—

B Subst.: ē^ōus, i, m.

1 Like h)w=|os (sc. a)sth/r), the morning-star, Verg. G. 1, 288; id. A. 3, 588; 11, 4.—

2 An inhabitant of the East, an Oriental, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 22 Jahn; id. Am. 1, 15, 29; Prop. 2, 3, 43 sq.—

3 The name of one of the horses of the sun, Ov. M. 2, 153.

In the wild

6 of 570 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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