The corpus record — Latin

Labdacus

Labdacus · m

a king of Thebes, father of Lāius

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Where it lives

Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Labdăcus — Lewis & Short

Labdăcus, i, m., = *la/bdakos,

I a king of Thebes, father of Lāius, Sen. Herc Fur. 495; id. Phoen. 53.—

II Hence,

A Lab-dăcĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Labdacus: dux, i. e. Eteocles, so called after his grandfather Lāius, Stat. Th. 2, 210.—

B Labdăcĭdes, ae, m., a male descendant of Labdacus, a Labdacide; applied to Polynīces as grandson of Laius, Stat. Th. 6, 450. —Plur.: Labdăcĭdae, ārum, m., the Thebans, Stat. Th. 9, 777; 10, 36.

In the wild

Labdacus Statius, Thebais 3.80

Where it came from

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

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