The corpus record — Latin

Hўantes

Hўantes · m

the Hyantes

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What it meant

Hўantes — Lewis & Short

Hўantes, um, m., = *(/uantes,

I the Hyantes, an old name of the Bœotians, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 26.—

II Derivv.

A Hўan-tēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Hyantes (Bœotians), Hyantean, Bœotian: Iolāus, Ov. M. 8, 310: Aganippe, id. ib. 5, 312: aqua, i. e. Castalian, Mart. 12, 3, 12.—

B Hўantĭus, a, um, adj., the same: sorores, i. e. the Muses, Stat. S. 2, 7, 8; cf. Camenae, Sid. Ep. 8, 9 in carm.: juvenis, i. e. Actœon, as grandson of Cadmus, Ov. M. 3, 147.

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.