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mephitis

mephitis · f

a noxious, pestilential exhalation from the ground, mephitis

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Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

mĕphītis — Lewis & Short

mĕphītis, is, f.,

I a noxious, pestilential exhalation from the ground, mephitis.

I Lit.: saevamque exhalat opaca mephitim, Verg. A. 7, 84: sulphureae, Pers. 3, 99.—

II Personified: Mĕphītis (Mĕfi-tis), is, f., a goddess who averts pestilential exhalations, Tac. H. 3, 34; Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208; Inscr. Orell. 1795; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 7, 84: lucus Mephitis, Varr. L. L. 5, 7, § 49 Müll.: aedes, Paul. ex Fest. 351, 3.

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