The corpus record — Latin

Neaera

Neaera · f

a female proper name

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Where it lives

Elegiae 9 · 7.29/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

Nĕaera — Lewis & Short

Nĕaera, ae, f., = *ne/aira,

I a female proper name.

1 The mistress of Lygdamus, Tib. 3, 1, 6; 23 et saep.—

2 A mistress of Horace, Hor. C. 3, 14, 21; id. Epod. 15.—

3 A mistress of the shepherd Ægon, Verg. E. 3, 3.—

4 Iole, the mistress of Hercules, Prud. stef. 10, 240.—

5 Ariadne, as the mistress of Bacchus, id. ap. Symm. 1, 139.

In the wild

Neaeram Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.139
Neaera Tibullus, Elegiae 3.2.12
Neaeram Vergil, Eclogues 3
Neaerae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.141
Neaera Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.23.16
Neaeram Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.23.16

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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