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Medon

Medon · m

A Centaur

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Where it lives

Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

Mĕdon — Lewis & Short

Mĕdon, ontis, m., = *me/dwn.

I A Centaur, Ov. M. 12, 303.—

II Son of Codrus, king of Athens, the first archon; hence, Mĕdontĭdae, ārum, m., his descendants, Vell. 1, 2, 2.—

III One of Penelope's suitors; acc. Medonta, Sabin. Ep. 1, 47.

In the wild

Medon Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.671
Medon Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.303
Medon Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.118

Where it came from

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

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