The corpus record — Latin

linus

linus · m

Linus

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Where it lives

Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Epigrammata 13 · 2.31/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Medicina 15 · 1.46/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Lĭnus — Lewis & Short

Lĭnus (-os), i, m., = *li/nos,

I Linus.

I A son of Apollo and Psammate, daughter of Crotopus, king of the Argives; he was given by his mother to the care of shepherds, and one day, being left alone, was torn to pieces by dogs; whereupon Apollo sent into the land a monster which destroyed everything, until slain by Chorœbus, Stat. Th. 6, 64; 1, 557 sqq.—

II The son of Apollo and Terpsichore, instructor of Orpheus and Hercules, the latter of whom killed him by a blow with the lyre: flam, ut ego opinor, Hercules, tu autem Linus, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 47; Verg. E. 4, 56; Prop. 2, 10 (3, 4), 8, who confounds him with the preceding. According to others, he was a son of Mercury and Urania, and was killed by Apollo in Eubœa, Hyg. Fab. 161; Mart. 9, 86, 4.—

III A fountain in Arcadia, Plin. 31, 2, 7, § 10.

Where it came from

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

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