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Minos

Minos · m

A son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthus, king and lawgiver in Crete, and after death a judge in the infernal…

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 7 · 20.18/10k
Ars Amatoria 8 · 5.38/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 1.42/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae 3 · 1.17/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Mīnos — Lewis & Short

Mīnos, ōis (ōnis: Minonis ira, Sall. Fragm. ap. m., = *mi/nws.

Prisc. p. 710 P.),

I A son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthus, king and lawgiver in Crete, and after death a judge in the infernal regions: ad eos venire, qui vere judices appellentur, Minoëm, Rhadamanthum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; 1, 5, 10; cf. id. Rep. 2, 1, 2; Sall. H. 2, 3; 1, 78; Verg. A. 6, 432; Ov. M. 9, 436.—Acc. Minoa, Ov. M. 9, 440; Verg. Cir. 367.—

II The grandson of the former, likewise king in Crete, the husband of Pasiphaë, father of Ariadne, Phædra, Androgeos, and Deucalion, and builder of the labyrinth, Ov. M. 7, 456; 8, 6 sq.; 152; cf. Suet. Tib. 70.

In the wild

Minos Ovid, Epistulae 16.350
Minos Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.25
Minos Ovid, Remedia Amoris 453
Minos Propertius, Elegiae 3.19.27
Minos Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 287
Minos Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.34.p2

6 of 53 attestations shown.

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