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Laomedon

Laomedon · m

the father of Priam and Ganymede, king of Troy

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Where it lives

Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Lāŏmĕdon — Lewis & Short

Lāŏmĕdon, ontis, m., = *laome/dwn,

I the father of Priam and Ganymede, king of Troy, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 2; Hor. C. 3, 3, 22; Ov. M. 6, 96; id. F. 6, 729; Hyg. Fab. 89.—Hence,

A Lāŏmĕdontēus, a, um, adj., = *laomedo/nteios, of or belonging to Laomedon, poet., Trojan: gens, Verg. A. 4, 542: arva, Ov. M. 11, 196: flammae, i. e. the Vestal fire brought by Æneas to Rome, Sil. 1, 543.—

B Lāŏmĕdontĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Laomedon, poet., Trojan: heros, i. e. Æneas, Verg. A. 8, 18: pubes, i. e. the Trojan youth, id. ib. 7, 105.—

C Lāŏmĕ-dontĭădes, ae, m., a male descendant of Laomedon: Priamus, Verg. A. 8, 158; Juv. 6, 326.—In plur.: Lāŏmĕdontĭădae, ārum, m., poet., Trojans, Verg. A. 3, 248.

In the wild

Laomedonve Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.96
Laomedon Ovid, Fasti 6.729
Laomedon Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p294
Laomedon Petronius, Satyricon 139
Laomedontis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p9
Laomedonti Tertullian, Apologeticum 14.4

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