The corpus record — Latin

Oaxes

Oaxes · m

a river in Crete

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k

What it meant

ŏaxes — Lewis & Short

ŏaxes or ŏaxis, is, m., = *)/oacis,

I a river in Crete, now Axus: rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen, Verg. E. 1, 66.—Hence,

II ŏaxis, ĭdis, f. adj., of or belonging to the Oaxes; poet. for Cretan: capiens tellurem Oaxida, Varr. Atacin. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 66.

In the wild

Oaxen Vergil, Eclogues 1

Where it came from

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