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Nŏmĭus

Nŏmĭus · m

the Pasturer

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What it meant

Nŏmĭus — Lewis & Short

Nŏmĭus and Nŏmĭos, ii, and Nŏ-mĭon, ōnis, m., = *no/mios and *nomi/wn,

I the Pasturer, a surname of Apollo, because he tended the flocks of Admetus (cf. Verg. G. 3, 2); acc. to Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 57, it is from no/mos, lex, and denotes the fourth Apollo: Paeanem aut Nomionem citārimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251 Klotz.—
II A son of Apollo and of Cyrene, the daughter of Hypseus, king of Thessaly, Just. 13, 7, 7.

Where it came from

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

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