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Nyctelius

Nyctelius · adj

an epithet of Bacchus

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Nyctĕlĭus — Lewis & Short

Nyctĕlĭus, a, um, adj., = *nukte/lios,

I an epithet of Bacchus, because his mysteries were celebrated at night: Nyctelius pater, Ov. A. A. 1, 567: latex, wine, Sen. Oedip. 492: Nyctelia sacra, the Bacchanalia, Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 383

In the wild

Nycteliumque Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.567
Nyctelius Seneca, Oedipus 1
Nyctelii Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.755
Nycteliusque Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.15
Nyctelium Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 111

Where it came from

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