The corpus record — Latin

hydrus1

hydrus1 · m

a water-serpent

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Argonautica 6 · 1.61/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. hydrus — Lewis & Short

hydrus or -os, i, m., = u(/dros,

I a water-serpent, serpent (cf.: chelydrus, chersydrus, anguis, serpens).

I Lit., Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 72; Verg. G. 4, 458; id. A. 7, 753; Ov. M. 13, 804: marini, Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 98. In the hair of the Furies, of Medusa, etc., Verg. A. 7, 447; Val. Fl. 2, 195; Ov. M. 4, 800; hence poet. transf.: nam si Vergilio puer et tolerabile desit Hospitium, caderent omnes a crinibus hydri, i. e. all his poetic fire would have come to naught (referring to his description of the Furies, A. 7, 415 and 447), Juv. 7, 70.—

II Transf.

A The poison of a serpent, Sil. 1, 322.—

B Hydros, i, the constellation of the Waterserpent, called also Anguis and Hydra, German. Arat. 429.

2. Hydrūs — Lewis & Short

Hydrūs, untis, f., = *(udrou=s,

I a city of Calabria, under a mountain of the same name, now Otranto, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 101; Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2; id. Att. 15, 21, 3; 16, 5, 3; Mel. 2, 4, 7.—In masc., avius Hydrus, of the city and mountain, Luc. 5, 375.—The city is also called Hydruntum, i, n., Liv. 36, 21, 5; Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 100.

In the wild

hydri Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.437
hydris Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.195
hydris Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.39
hydri Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.70
hydros Ovid, Epistulae 9.85
hydri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.8.p1

6 of 50 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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