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Macetae

Macetae · m

Macedonians

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Măcĕtae — Lewis & Short

Măcĕtae (Măcĕdae), ārum, m., = *make/tai.

I (As a less usual form for *makedo/nes,) Macedonians: Macetae locupletissimo imperio aucti, Gell. 9, 3, 1.—Gen. plur. Măcĕtūm. Stat. S. 4, 6, 106; Sil. 14, 5; Luc. 2, 647; Claud. ap. Rufin. 2, 279; Aus. de Clar. Urb. 2, 9.—

II (Because Antiochus the Great was a descendant of Seleucus Nicator) = Syri, Sil. 13, 878.

In the wild

Macetae Statius, Achilleis 2.132
Macetae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.3.1

Where it came from

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

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