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glaucōpis

glaucōpis · f

the owl

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What it meant

glaucōpis — Lewis & Short

glaucōpis, ĭdis, f., = glaukw=pis (gray-eyed, an epithet of Minerva),

I the owl: si meus aurita gaudet glaucopide Flaccus, Mart. 7, 87 dub. (ex conject. Scalig., al. lagopode; v. lagopus).
1glaucus, a, um, adj., = glauko/s, bright, sparkling, gleaming, grayish (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: caeruleus, caesius): undae, Lucr. 1, 719; so of water: amictus (Nymphae), Verg. A. 12, 885; cf.: amictus (dei Tiberini), id. ib. 8, 33: sorores, i. e. the Nereides, Stat. Th. 9, 351: ulva, Verg. A. 6, 416: salix, id. G. 4, 182; cf.: frons (salictorum), id. ib. 2, 13: equus, id. ib. 3, 82: oculi, Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 75; 11, 37, 53, § 141 sq.—Transf.: glauca uxor, i. e. with gleaming eyes, Amm. 15, 12, 1.
2glaucus, i, m., = glau=kos, a bluish-colored fish, otherwise unknown, Plin. 9, 16, 25, § 58 al.

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