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Malea

Malea · f

a promontory in the Peloponnesus, at the south of Laconia

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 2 · 1.76/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

Mălĕa — Lewis & Short

Mălĕa and Mălēa, ae, f. (collat. form Mălĕae, ārum, f., *male/a and *ma/leia,

Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 1 B. and K.), =

I a promontory in the Peloponnesus, at the south of Laconia, now C. Malea, Liv. 34, 32, 19; Mel. 2, 3, 7; Plin. 4, 5, 8, § 22; Cic. Fam. 4, 12; Verg. A. 5, 193; Ov. Am. 2, 16, 24; Prop. 3, 17 (4, 18), 8; Stat. Th. 2, 33.—Hence,

II Mălēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the promontory of Malea, Malean: jugum, Flor. 2, 9, 4; 3, 6, 3.

In the wild

Maleae Statius, Thebais 7.16
Maleam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.5
Maleam Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.36.42.5
Maleae Statius, Thebais 2.33
Maleae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.261
Maleae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.6

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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