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Megaera

Megaera · f

One of the Furies

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Where it lives

In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Mĕgaera — Lewis & Short

Mĕgaera, ae, f., = *me/gaira.

I One of the Furies, Verg. A. 12, 846; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 387.—

II Transf., a fury: Megaera quaedam mortalis, Amm. 14, 1, 2.

In the wild

Megaera Silius Italicus, Punica 13.432
Megaera Petronius, Satyricon 124
Megaera Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.387
Megaera Silius Italicus, Punica 3.37
Megaeram Statius, Thebais 11.60
Megaera Lucan, Pharsalia 6.730

6 of 23 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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