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Medusa

Medusa · f

daughter of Phorcus; she captivated Neptune with her golden hair, and became by him the mother of Pegasus. Minerva, as…

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
Pharsalia 6 · 1.18/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Mĕdūsa — Lewis & Short

Mĕdūsa, ae, f., = *me/dousa,

I daughter of Phorcus; she captivated Neptune with her golden hair, and became by him the mother of Pegasus. Minerva, as a punishment, turned her hair into serpents, and gave to her eyes an enchanted power of converting everything they looked upon to stone. Perseus, provided with the shield of Pallas, slew her, and carried off her head, while from the blood that dropped from it serpents sprung, Ov. M. 4, 654; 793; Luc. 9, 626.—Hence,

II Mĕdūsaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Medusa, Medusan (poet.): monstrum, Ov. M. 10, 22: equus, i. e. Pegasus, id. F. 5, 8; cf. praepes, i. e. Pegasus, id. M. 5, 257: fons, i. e. the fount Hippocrene, struck open by a blow of the hoof of Pegasus, id. ib. 5, 312.

In the wild

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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