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Neritos

Neritos · m

a mountain in Ithaca, and an island in its vicinity

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Where it lives

Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Nērĭtŏs — Lewis & Short

Nērĭtŏs (-us), i, m., = *nh/ritos,

I a mountain in Ithaca, and an island in its vicinity, Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 4, 12, 19, § 55: Neritos ardua saxis, Verg. A. 3, 271; Sen. Troad. 856.—Hence,

II Nērĭtĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Neritos, Neritian; poet. for Ithacean: Macareus, Ov. M. 14, 159; also for Ulyssean: Neritia proles, the Saguntines, because they emigrated from the Cephallenian islands, Sil. 2, 317; cf. Liv. 21, 7: Neritia ratis, the ship of Ulysses, Ov. M. 14, 563: dux, i. e. Ulysses, id. F. 4, 69: domus, of Ulysses, id. M. 13, 712.

In the wild

Neritos Vergil, Aeneid 3.271
Neritos Seneca, Troades 1
Neriton Silius Italicus, Punica 15.305
Neritis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.1.p4
Neritum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.1.p4

Where it came from

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