Hĕcălē — Lewis & Short
Hĕcălē, ēs, f., = *(eka/lh,
I a poor old woman who kindly received Theseus, celebrated by Callimachus, Plin. 22, 22, 44, § 88; App. M. 1, p. 112; Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 50; Ov. R. Am. 747; cf. Petr. 135, 8, 16.
The corpus record — Latin
Hecale
Hecale · f
a poor old woman who kindly received Theseus
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Where it lives
- Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Hecalen Ovid, Remedia Amoris 747
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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