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Laestrygon

Laestrygon · m

an ancient people of Italy, originally in Campania, in the region around Formiæ, and afterwards in Sicily, who are…

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Laestrȳgon — Lewis & Short

Laestrȳgon (Lestr-), ŏnis, m., more freq. in Laestrȳgŏnes, um, m., = *laistrugo/nes,

plur.:

I an ancient people of Italy, originally in Campania, in the region around Formiæ, and afterwards in Sicily, who are fabled to have been savages and cannibals, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 59; 7, 1, 2, § 9; Gell. 15, 21; Juv. 15, 18; Mart. Cap. 6, § 641. —In sing., Ov. M. 14, 233.—Of Laestrygonians in Sicily, Sil. 14, 125.—Hence,

II Laestrȳgŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Læstrygonians, Læstrygonian.

A In Formiae: domus, i. e. Formiæ, Ov. Ib. 390; cf.: rupes, in Formiæ, Sil. 7, 276: amphora, i. e. Campanian, Hor. C. 3, 16, 34.—

B In Sicily: campi, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 89.

In the wild

Laestrygone Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 330
Laestrygonum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p7
Laestrygone Silius Italicus, Punica 14.126
Laestrygonis Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.237
Laestrygonis Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.233
Laestrygoni Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.8.p1

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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