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Naxos

Naxos · f

the isle of Naxos

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Where it lives

Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Naxos — Lewis & Short

Naxos, i, f., = *na/cos,

I the isle of Naxos (now Naxia, or Axia), in the Ægean Sea, the largest of the Cyclades, famed for its wines, and for the abandonment there of Ariadne by Theseus, Plin. 4, 12, 22, § 67; Verg. A. 3, 125; Ov. M. 3, 640; Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 27.— Hence, Naxĭus, a, um, adj., Naxian: turba, Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 28: juncus, Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 115: ardor, Ariadne's crown, a constellation, Col. 10, 52: cos, = *naci/a a)ko/nh, a whetstone from Naxos, Plin. 36, 22, 47, § 164. —Subst.: naxĭum, ii, n., a Naxian whetstone, Plin. 36, 7, 10, § 54; 37, 8, 32, § 109.—

II An ancient city of Sicily, destroyed by Dionysius. On or near its site Tauromenium was built, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88.

In the wild

Naxo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.15.1
Naxos Seneca, Oedipus 1
Naxon Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.636
Naxos Statius, Achilleis 1.678
Naxi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.8.p1
Naxon Vergil, Aeneid 3.125

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