The corpus record — Latin

Hybla

Hybla · f

a mountain of Sicily abounding in flowers and bees

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Epigrammata 5 · 0.89/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hybla — Lewis & Short

Hybla, ae, and Hyblē, ēs, f., =*(/ublh,

I a mountain of Sicily abounding in flowers and bees, with a city of the same name, Plin. 11, 13, 13, § 32; Verg. E. 7, 37; Ov. Tr. 5, 13, 22; Sil. 14, 200; Mart. 7, 88, 8; 10, 12, 3; Mel. 2, 7, 16.—

II Derivv.

A Hy-blaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mount Hybla, Hyblean: apes, Verg. E. 1, 55: mella, Mart. 11, 42: avena, i. e. of the Sicilian Theocritus, Calp. Ecl. 4, 6, 3.—

B Hyblenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of the city of Hybla, Hybleans, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102.

In the wild

Hybla Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.13
Hybla Ovid, Ex Ponto 2.7.26
Hybla Ovid, Tristia 5.6.38
Hybla Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.79
Hybla Ovid, Ibis 199
Hybla Seneca, Oedipus 1

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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