The corpus record — Latin

lamus

lamus · m

A mythic king of the Læstrygonians, a son of Neptune, and the founder of Formiæ

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Lămus — Lewis & Short

Lămus, i, m., = *la/mos.

I A mythic king of the Læstrygonians, a son of Neptune, and the founder of Formiæ, Hor. C. 3, 17, 1; Sil. 8, 530; hence, urbs Lami, i. e. Formiæ, Ov. M. 14, 233.—

II A son of Hercules and Omphale, Ov. H. 9, 54.—

III The name of a horse, Sil. 16, 474.

In the wild

6 of 9 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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