The corpus record — Latin

Gargaphie

Gargaphie · f

a valley of Bœvtia sacred to Diana

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Where it lives

Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Gargăphĭe — Lewis & Short

Gargăphĭe, ēs (Gargăphia, ae, f., = *gargafi/h,

Hyg. Fab. 181),

I a valley of Bœvtia sacred to Diana, with a fountain of the same name, where Actœon was torn to pieces by his hounds, Ov. M. 3, 156; Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25.

In the wild

Gargaphie Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.7.p2
Gargaphie Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.156
Gargaphie Statius, Thebais 7.274

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.