The corpus record — Latin

Iapetus

Iapetus · m

a Titan

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

īăpĕtus — Lewis & Short

īăpĕtus, i, m., = *)iapeto/s,

I a Titan, son of Uranos and Gœa, the father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, Hyg. F. praef.; 54; 142; 144; Verg. G. 1, 279; Lact. 2, 10, 7 sq.: satus Iapeto, i. e. Prometheus, Ov. M. 1, 82; called also Iapeti genus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 27.—

II Deriv. īăpĕtīŏnĭdes, ae, m., a male descendant of Iapetus: Atlas, Ov. M. 4, 632: fratres gemini, i. e. Prometheus and Epimetneus, Claud. Eutr. 2, 49.

In the wild

Iapeti Horace, Carmina 1.3.27
Iapetum Statius, Thebais 10.916
Iapeti Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.564
Iapetus Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.12
Iapeto Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.82
Iapetus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.74

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.