The corpus record — Latin

hemerobion

hemerobion · n

an insect that lives but a day

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

hēmĕrŏbĭon — Lewis & Short

hēmĕrŏbĭon, ĭi, n., = h(mero/bion,

I an insect that lives but a day, an ephemeron: erumpit volucre quadrupes, nec ultra unum diem vivit, unde hemerobion vocatur, Plin. 11, 36, 43, § 120.

In the wild

hemerobion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.11.p43
hemerobion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.36.p2

Where it came from

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