lĕontŏphŏnos — Lewis & Short
lĕontŏphŏnos, i, m., = leontofo/nos (lion-killer),
I a small animal whose urine was said to be fatal to lions, Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136.
The corpus record — Latin
leontophonos
leontophonos · m
a small animal whose urine was said to be fatal to lions
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- leontophono Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.8.p57
- leontophonon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.38.p1
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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