The corpus record — Latin

Nessus

Nessus · m

A river in Thrace

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 9 · 7.99/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 3 · 2.28/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nessus — Lewis & Short

Nessus, i, m., = *ne/ssos.

I A river in Thrace, now the Mesto or (Turkish) Karasu, Liv. 45, 29, 6; also called Nestos ( = *ne/stos), Mel. 2, 2.—

II A Centaur, who, on offering violence to Dejanira, was slain by Hercules with a poisoned arrow, Ov. M. 9, 101 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 34.—Hence,

III Nessēus, a, um, adj., of Nessus: venenum, with the blood of Nessus, poisoned by the arrow of Hercules, Ov. H. 9, 163: palla tabe Nesseā illita, Sen. Herc. Oet. 716.

In the wild

6 of 36 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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