The corpus record — Latin

helops

helops · m

a very savory sea-fish

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

hĕlops — Lewis & Short

hĕlops (also ĕlops and ellops), ŏpis, m., = e)/lloy,

I a very savory sea-fish, perh. the sword-fish; acc. to others, the sturgeon, Enn. Hed. 6 (p. 166 Vahl.); Ov. Hal. 96; Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 2; Col. 8, 16, 9; Plin. 9, 17, 27, § 61; 32, 11, 54, § 153; Quint. 5, 10, 21; Gell. 7, 16, 5.

In the wild

helopem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p4
Helopsque Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.334
Helops Statius, Thebais 12.746
helopi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p4
helops Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.16.9
Helops Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.335

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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