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nectareus

nectareus · adj

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

nectărĕus — Lewis & Short

nectărĕus (nectărĭus), a, um, adj.nectar,

I of or belonging to nectar, nectared: nectareis quod alatur aquis, Ov. M. 7, 707. —

II Transf.

A Sweet or delicious as nectar: Falernum, Mart. 13, 108: fontes, Claud. Nupt. Honor. et Mar. 209.—

B Subst.: nectărĕa, ae, f. (sc. herba), the plant elecampane, used for flavoring wine, which was hence called nectarites, Plin. 14, 16, 19. § 108.

In the wild

nectareis Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.209
nectareum Martial, Epigrammata 13.108.1
nectareis Silius Italicus, Punica 14.199
nectarei Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.30
nectarei Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.3
nectareis Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.707

Where it came from

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