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Heliades

Heliades · f

daughters of Helios and sisters of Phaëthon

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

Hēlĭădĕs — Lewis & Short

Hēlĭădĕs, um, f., = *(hlia/des,

I daughters of Helios and sisters of Phaëthon, who were changed into poplars (acc. to others, into alders) and their tears into amber, Hyg. Fab. 154; Ov. M. 2, 340 (cf. Verg. A. 10, 190, with id. E. 6, 62): nemus Heliadum, i. e. poplar- or alder-grove, Ov. M. 10, 91: Heliadum lacrimae, i. e. amber, id. ib. 10, 263; called also: Heliadum gemma, Mart. 9, 14, 6; hence: capaces Heliadum crustae, i. e. of amber, Juv. 5, 38.

In the wild

Heliadum Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.38
Heliadum Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.164
Heliadum Ovid, Fasti 6.717
Heliadum Martial, Epigrammata 9.12.6
Heliadum Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.91
Heliadum Martial, Epigrammata 4.59.1

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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