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Methymna

Methymna · f

a city in the island of Lesbos, famous as the birthplace of the poet Arion, and for its excellent wine

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Where it lives

Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Mēthymna — Lewis & Short

Mēthymna, ae, f., = *mh/qumna,

I a city in the island of Lesbos, famous as the birthplace of the poet Arion, and for its excellent wine, now Molivo, Mel. 2, 7, 4; Liv. 45, 31, 14: quot habet Methymna racemos, Ov. A. A. 1, 57.—Hence.

A Mēthymnaeus, a, um, adj., = *mhqumnai=os, of or belonging to Methymna, Methymnean: Lesbos, Ov. M. 11, 55: Arion, of Methymna, Cic. Tusc. 2, 27, 67: merum, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 38. palmes, Verg. G. 2, 90.—In plur. subst.: Mēthymnaei, ōrum, m., the Methymneans, Curt. 4, 5, 19.—

B Mēthymnĭas, ădis, f. adj., Methymnian (poet.): Methymniades puellae, Ov. H. 15, 15.

In the wild

Methymna Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.57
Methymna Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.31.p6
Methymna Silius Italicus, Punica 7.211
Methymnam Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.31.13

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