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Megara

Megara · m

a Numantine

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What it meant

1. Mĕgăra — Lewis & Short

Mĕgăra, ae, m.,

I a Numantine, Flor. 2, 18, 4.

2. Mĕgăra — Lewis & Short

Mĕgăra, ae, f., and Mĕgăra, ōrum, n. (

I abl. plur. Megaribus for Megaris, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 57), = ta\ *me/gara.
I A city in the country of Megaris, the birthplace of Euclid.
A Fem., Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57; Mart. 11, 43, 6.—
B Neutr., Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 60; Liv. 28, 7, 16.—
II Mĕgă-ra, ae, f., a city of Sicily, Liv. 24, 30 sq.; Sil. 14, 273; Serv. ad Verg. E. 1, 55; v. Megaris, II.

3. Mĕgăra — Lewis & Short

Mĕgăra, ae, f.,

I wife of Hercules, whom, in his madness, he destroyed, together with her children, Hyg. Fab. 31.

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