The corpus record — Latin

Helle

daughter of Athamas and Nephele

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Argonautica 9 · 2.42/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Epistulae 3 · 1.17/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

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

What it meant

Hellē — Lewis & Short

Hellē, ēs (

I gen. Hellis, Sid. Carm. 9, 41), f., = *(/ellh, daughter of Athamas and Nephele, sister of Phrixus; she fled with the latter from her step-mother Ino on a ram with a golden fleece to Colchis, but was drowned in the strait called, after her, Hellespontus (the sea of Helle), Ov. M. 11, 195; id. F. 3, 857 sq.; Prop. 2, 26, 5 (3, 21, 5 M.); 3 (4), 22, 5; Col. poët. 10, 155; Hyg. Fab. 2 and 3: Mater Helles, Ov. H. 19, 123.

In the wild

Hellen Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.57
Hellen Ovid, Fasti 4.715
Hellen Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.7.p3
Helles Propertius, Elegiae 3.22.5
Helles Martial, Epigrammata 9.71.7
Helles Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.425

6 of 37 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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