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Ninus

Ninus · m

the son of Belus, the first king of Assyria, husband of Semiramis, and builder of Nineveh

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Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Nī^nus — Lewis & Short

Nī^nus, i, m., = *ninos,

I the son of Belus, the first king of Assyria, husband of Semiramis, and builder of Nineveh, Just. 1, 1, 7 sq.; Curt. 3, 3, 16: busta Nini, Ov. M. 4, 88. —

II Another name of the city of Nineveh, Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 42; called also Ninos, Tac. A. 12, 13; Luc. 3, 215.—

III Another name of the city of Hierapolis, Amm. 14, 8, 7; 23, 6, 22.

In the wild

Ninos Lucan, Pharsalia 3.215
ninus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34s
Nino Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.7
Nineven Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.4
Ninus Martial, Epigrammata 5.12.3
Nini Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.22

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Where it came from

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