The corpus record — Latin

Laius

Laius · m

son of Labdacus, king of Thebes, and father of Œdipus

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Where it lives

Oedipus 7 · 11.8/10k
De Fato 3 · 6.05/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Lāĭus — Lewis & Short

Lāĭus or Lajus, i (m., = *la/ios,

voc. Lai, Stat. Th. 7, 355),

I son of Labdacus, king of Thebes, and father of Œdipus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 71; id. Fat. 13, 30; Stat. Th. 2, 7; 66. —Hence, Lāĭădes, ae, m., a male descendant of Laius, i. e. Œdipus, Ov. M. 7, 759.

In the wild

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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