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Hylaeus

Hylaeus · m

A centaur who offered violence to Atalanta

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Where it lives

Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Hȳlaeus — Lewis & Short

Hȳlaeus, i, m., = *(ulai=os (v. Chandler, Gr. Accent. § 239).

I A centaur who offered violence to Atalanta, Ov. A. A. 2, 191; Verg. A. 8, 294.—Hence,

B Hylaeus, a, um, adj., of Hylœus: ramus, Prop. 1, 1, 13: gens, Val. Fl. 6, 74: ille etiam (i. e. Milanion) Hylaei percussus vulnere rami, Prop. 1, 1, 13.—

II One of Actœon's hounds, Ov. M. 3, 213; Hyg. Fab. 181.

In the wild

Hylaei Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.544
Hylaea Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.74
Hylaei Propertius, Elegiae 1.1.13
Hylaeos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p12
Hylaeusque Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.213
Hylaeus Statius, Thebais 4.140

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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