The corpus record — Latin

Galatea

Galatea · f

A seanymph

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Eclogues 6 · 13.22/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Metamorphoses 8 · 1.03/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Gălătēa — Lewis & Short

Gălătēa, ae, f., =*gala/teia.

I A seanymph, Ov. M. 13, 738; 789; 839 sq.; Verg. A. 9, 103.—

II A rustic maiden, Verg. E. 1, 31; 3, 64.—

III A female friend of Horace, to whom C. 3, 27 is addressed.

In the wild

Galatea Vergil, Eclogues 7
Galatea Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.333
Galatea Propertius, Elegiae 3.2.7
Galatea Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.863
Galatea Silius Italicus, Punica 14.226
Galatea Ovid, Fasti 6.733

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.