The corpus record — Latin

Marsўas

Marsўas · m

a satyr who challenged Apollo to a trial of skill on the flute, and whom the latter vanquished and flayed alive

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

1. Marsўas — Lewis & Short

Marsўas and Marsўa, ae, m., = *marsu/as,

I a satyr who challenged Apollo to a trial of skill on the flute, and whom the latter vanquished and flayed alive, Liv. 38, 13, 6; Ov. F. 6, 705; id. M. 6, 383; App. Flor. 1, 3, p. 113; Luc. 3, 207; Stat. Th. 4, 186; near his statue in the Roman forum was the place for the transaction of business, Hor. S. 1, 6, 120; Mart. 2, 64, 8; Sen. de Ben. 6, 32, 1; cf. Juv. 9, 2.

2. Marsўas — Lewis & Short

Marsўas, ae, m., the name of several rivers.

I A river in Greater Phrygia, which flows into the Mæander, now Tschinar Tchai, Ov. M. 6, 400; Liv. 38, 13, 6.—

II The name of two rivers in Syria, Plin. 5, 23, 19, § 81; id. 5, 24, 21, § 86.

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.