The corpus record — Latin

Helicon

Helicon · m

a mountain in Bœotia

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Tristia 3 · 1.32/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hĕlĭcon — Lewis & Short

Hĕlĭcon, ōnis, m., = *(elikw/n,

I a mountain in Bœotia, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, now Zagará, Plin. 4, 3, 4, § 8; 4, 7, 12, § 25; Ov. M. 2, 219; 5, 254; 663; id. F. 4, 193; Verg. A. 7, 641; 10, 163 al.—

II Derivv.

A Hĕlĭcōnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Helicon, Heliconian: collis, i. e. Helicon, Cat. 61, 1: Tempe, a beautiful valley on Mount Helicon, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 15: mella, Claud. Laud. Ser. 10: Naïs, id. Epigr. 5.—

B Hĕlĭcōnĭădes, um, f., the Heliconians, a poet. designation of the Muses, Lucr. 3, 1037.—

C Hĕlĭcōnis, ĭdis. f. adj., Heliconian: silva, Stat. S. 4, 4, 90.—In plur. subst.: Hĕlĭcōnĭdes, um, i. q. Heliconiades, the Muses, Pers. prooem. 4.

In the wild

Heliconis Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 31.19
Heliconis Martial, Epigrammata 10.64.3
Helicon Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.219
Heliconis Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 23.13
Helicone Ausonius, Epistularum 14.9
Helicon Statius, Silvae 2.2.36

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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