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Laertes

the father of Ulysses

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Epistulae 4 · 1.56/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Lāërtes — Lewis & Short

Lāërtes, ae (

nom. Laërta, Sen. Troad. 699;

I gen. Laërtis, acc. to Prisc. p. 705 P.), m., = *lae/rths, the father of Ulysses, Att. ap. Non. 314, 20 (Trag. Rel. v. 131 Rib.); Cic. de Sen. 15, 54; Ov. H. 1, 113.—

II Hence,

A Lāërtĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Laertes, Laertian: regna, i. e. Ithaca, Verg. A. 3, 272: heros, i. e. Ulysses, Ov. M. 13, 124; id. Tr. 5, 5, 3: proles, Verg. Cul. 326.—

B Lāërtĭădes, ae, m., = *laertia/dhs, a male descendant of Laertes: his son Ulysses, Att. ap. App. de Deo Socr. c. 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 524 Rib.); Hor. C. 1, 15, 21; id. S. 2, 5, 59; Ov. M. 13, 48.

In the wild

Laertae Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3.3
Laerten Ovid, Epistulae 1.113
Laertes Seneca, Thyestes 1
Laertes Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.144
Laerta Seneca, Troades 1
Laertes Martial, Epigrammata 10.67.3

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