The corpus record — Latin

Halys

Halys · m

A river in Asia Minor

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. Hălys — Lewis & Short

Hălys, yos, m., = *(/alus.

I A river in Asia Minor, flowing between Paphlagonia and Cappadocia, now Kisil-Irmak: secundum Halyn, Mel. 1, 19, 9; Plin. 6, 2, 2, § 6; 6, 3, 3, § 8: circa Halyn, Liv. 38, 16, 13: Croesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertet opum vim, Cic. Div. 2, 56, 115; cf.: Croeso fatalis Halys, Luc. 3, 272.—Acc.: Halym, also Curt. 4, 11, 3.—

II A man's name, Stat. Th. 2, 574.—As a surname, Inscr. Grut. 877, 9.

2. Halus — Lewis & Short

Halus, i, f.,

I a small place in Assyria, near Artemita, only mentioned by Tac. A. 6, 41.

3. hўălus — Lewis & Short

hўălus, i, m., = u(/alos,

I glass.

I Lit.: Milesia vellera Carpebant hyali saturo fucata colore, i. e. with glass - green color, Verg. G. 4, 335.—

II Transf., glassgreen color, Prud. stef. 12, 53; Aus. Idyll. 10, 418.

In the wild

Halys Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.32
Halys Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.16
Halys Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 48.6
Halys Lucan, Pharsalia 3.272
Halys Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.3
Halys Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.120

6 of 13 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.