The corpus record — Latin

Harpax

Harpax · adj

drawing to itself

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Where it lives

Pseudolus 88 · 79.51/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. harpax — Lewis & Short

harpax, ăgis, adj., = a(/rpac,

I drawing to itself, rapacious.—Lit., of amber and brimstone: in Syria feminas verticillos inde (i. e. ex electro) facere et vocari harpaga, quia folia paleasque et vestium fimbrias rapiat, Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 37; so of sulphur, id. 35, 15, 50, § 176 (the correct reading, see Sillig ad h. l.).

2. Harpax — Lewis & Short

Harpax, ăgis, m.a(/rpac,

I the name of a slave, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 58 sq.; 4, 2, 53 sq. —Also in voc.: Harpage, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 70.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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