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ĕphўra

ĕphўra · f

another name for Corinth

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ĕphўra — Lewis & Short

ĕphўra, ae, and (poet.) ĕphўre, ēs, f., = *)efu/ra, Ion. *)efu/rh,

I another name for Corinth, Plin. 4, 4, 5, § 11; Ov. M. 2, 240; 7, 391; Stat. S. 2, 2, 34; so named, according to the myth, after a sea-nymph, Ephyre, Verg. G. 4, 343; Hyg. Fab. 275.—

II Derivv.

A ĕphўrēïus, a, um, adj., Ephyrean, Corinthian: aera, Verg. G. 2, 464; cf. Corinthus, II. A. 6.—

B ĕphўraeus or ĕphўrēus, a, um, adj., the same: litus, Stat. Th. 6, 253: moenia, i. e. of Syracuse (a colony of Corinth), Sil. 14, 180; cf. ib. 52; also Dyrrachium (founded by the Corinthian Corcyraeans), Luc. 6, 17.—

C ĕphў-rēïădes, ae, m., an Ephyrean, Corinthian, Stat. Th. 6, 652.—

D ĕphўrēïas, ădis, f., adj., Ephyrean, Corinthian: puellae, Claud. Bell. Get. 629.

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