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Minoius

Minoius · adj

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Mīnōĭus — Lewis & Short

Mīnōĭus, a, um, adj., = *minw/i+os,

I of or belonging to Minos, Minoan; poet. also for Cretan: Minoia regna, Verg. A. 6, 14: virgo, i. e. Ariadne, daughter of Minos, Val. Fl. 7, 279: sella, the tribunal of Minos in the infernal regions, Prop. 5, 11, 21: tela, i. e. Cretan arrows, Sil. 2, 107: turba, Cretan army, id. 14, 43: tecta Brundisii, founded by Cretans, Luc. 5, 406.

In the wild

Minoia Ovid, Epistulae 4.61
Minoia Silius Italicus, Punica 2.107
Minoia Statius, Achilleis 1.192
Minoia Ovid, Fasti 3.81
Minoia Lucan, Pharsalia 5.406
Minoia Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.332

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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