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Hecuba

Hecuba · f

the daughter of Dymas

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Where it lives

Troades 14 · 20.55/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hĕcŭba — Lewis & Short

Hĕcŭba, ae, and Hĕcŭbē, ēs, f., = *(eka/bh,

I the daughter of Dymas, wife of Priam; after the destruction of Troy the slave of Penelope, changed through rage into a dog, Verg. A. 2, 501; 515; Ov. M. 13, 423; 549 sq.; 577; Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63; id. Fat. 15, 34.—Transf., an ugly old woman (opp. to Andromache), Mart. 3, 76, 4.

In the wild

Hecuba Seneca, Agamemnon 1
Hecubaeque Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.577
Hecuba Plautus, Menaechmi 5.1
Hecuba Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.77
Hecuba Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.5.17
Hecuba Seneca, Troades 1

6 of 43 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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