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Iapyx

Iapyx · m

a son of Dœdalus

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ĭāpyx — Lewis & Short

ĭāpyx, ўgis, m., = *)ia/puc,

I a son of Dœdalus, who ruled in Southern Italy (Apulia or Calabria), Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 102; Ov. M. 15, 52.—

B Transf.

1 A river in the south of Italy, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 102.—

2 A wind that blows in the south of Italy, the west-northwest of the Greeks, Hor. C. 1, 3, 4; Verg. A. 8, 710.—

II Deriv. ĭāpўgĭa, ae, f., that part of Southern Italy (Apulia or Calabria) over which Iapyx ruled, Iapygia, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 102; Ov. M. 15, 703; Serv. Verg. G. 3, 475.—

B Derivv.

1 ĭāpўgĭus, a, um, adj., Iapygian: Acra, a promontory on the eastern extremity of the Tarentine Gulf, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 100.—

2 ĭāpyx, ўgis, adj., Iapygian, also for Apulian, Calabrian: campus, Sil. 1, 51; 3, 707: equus, Verg. A. 11, 678: Garganus, id. ib. 11, 247: Daunus, as king of Apulia, Ov. M. 14, 458; 510.—

3 ĭāpўgēus, i, m. (sc. ventus), the wind usually called Iapyx (v. supra), App. de Mundo, p. 63, 20.

In the wild

Iapyx Statius, Thebais 12.746
Iapyx Vergil, Aeneid 12.420
Iapyx Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.11.p2
Iapyx Vergil, Aeneid 12.391
Iapyx Horace, Carmina 3.27
Iapyx Vergil, Aeneid 12.425

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Where it came from

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