The corpus record — Latin

Harpocrates

Harpocrates · m

The Egyptian god of silence

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Harpŏcrătēs — Lewis & Short

Harpŏcrătēs, is, m., = *(arpokra/ths,

I The Egyptian god of silence, represented with his finger on his mouth; acc. to others, a Greek philosopher, who enjoined silence respecting the nature of the gods, Varr. L. L. 5, § 57 Müll. N. cr. (cf. Ov. M. 9, 692).—*

II Transf., a silent person, Cat. 74, 4.

In the wild

Harpocratem Catullus, Carmina elegies.74.4
Harpocratem Catullus, Carmina elegies.102.4
Harpocraten Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p1

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.