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Melanthus

Melanthus · m

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Where it lives

Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

Mĕlanthus — Lewis & Short

Mĕlanthus, i, m., = *me/lanqos.

I A river in Sarmatia, Ov. P. 4, 10, 54.—

II One of the seamen whom Bacchus changed into dolphins, Ov. M. 3, 617.—

III The father of the Athenian king Codrus, Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Hence, Mĕlanthēus (quadrisyl.), a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Melanthus: caedes, Ov. Ib. 625.

In the wild

Melanthus Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.617
Melanthus Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.10.54
Melanthum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.203
Melantho Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.120

Where it came from

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

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