The corpus record — Latin

Harpyiae

Mythical rapacious monsters

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Where it lives

de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Harpȳiae — Lewis & Short

Harpȳiae (trisyl.;

I scanned as a quadrisyl. Hārpўĭās, Rutil. Itin. 1, 608), ārum, f., = *(/arpuiai (qs. the spoilers).

I Mythical rapacious monsters, half bird and half woman, the Harpies, Verg. A. 3, 212 sq.; 6, 289; Hor. S. 2, 2, 40; Val. Fl. 4, 428; Hyg. Fab. 14.—In sing.: Harpyia Celaeno, Verg. A. 3, 365.—

B Transf., in sing., a rapacious person, a harpy, Sid. Ep. 5, 7.—

II Also in sing., the name of one of Actœon's hounds, Ov. M. 3, 215.

In the wild

Harpyias Vergil, Aeneid 3.249
Harpyiae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.428
Harpyias Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.28
Harpyiae Vergil, Aeneid 3.226
Harpyiasque Martial, Epigrammata 10.4.9
Harpyias Petronius, Satyricon 136

6 of 16 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.