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Nonacris

Nonacris · f

a mountain in Arcadia, at the foot of which lay a city of the same name, and in which the Styx had its source

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Nōnācris — Lewis & Short

Nōnācris, is, f., = *nw/nakris,

I a mountain in Arcadia, at the foot of which lay a city of the same name, and in which the Styx had its source, Vitr. 8, 3, 16; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 131; 4, 6, 10, § 21.—

II Hence,

A Nōnācrīnus, a, um, adj., Nonacrian, poet. for Arcadian: virgo Nonacrina, i. e. Callisto, Ov. M. 2, 409: Atalanta, id. A. A. 2, 185.—

B Nōnācrĭus, a, um, adj., Nonacrian, poet. for Arcadian: heros, i. e. Evander, Ov. F. 5, 97.—Subst.: Nōnā-cria, ae, f.

1 Atalanta, Ov. M. 8, 426. —

2 (Sc. urbs.) The city of Nonacris, Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 1.

In the wild

Nonacris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.6
Nonacris Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.16
Nonacris Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 15
Nonacris Tertullian, De Anima 50
Nonacrim Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p4
Nonacrim Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.2.p8

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