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Heliopolis

Heliopolis · f

A city of Lower Egypt

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Hēlĭŏpŏlis — Lewis & Short

Hēlĭŏpŏlis, is, f., = *(hlio/polis.

I A city of Lower Egypt, Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 54; Macr. S. 1, 23, 10.—

B Derivv.

1 Hē-lĭŏpŏlītes, ae, adj., of or belonging to Heliopolis, Heliopolite: nomos, Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 49: Zeus, an Assyrian designation of Sol, acc. to Macr. S. 1, 23; cf. in the foll.—Subst.: Hēlĭŏpŏlītae, ārum, m. plur., the inhabitants of Heliopolis, Heliopolites, Plin. 36, 26, 67, § 197.—

2 Hēlĭŏpŏlītānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Heliopolis, Heliopolitan: civitas, Amm. 17, 4: JVPPITER, Inscr. Orell. 1234; 1246.—Subst.: Hēlĭŏ-pŏlītāni, ōrum, m. plur., the inhabitants of Heliopolis, Heliopolitans, Inscr. ap. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 542.—

II A city of Cœlesyria, at the foot of Libanus, now Baalbek, Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; Tac. A. 6, 28.

In the wild

Heliopolim Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.22
Heliopolis Tacitus, Annales 6.p33
Heliopolis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.54

Where it came from

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