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Ocnus

The founder of the city of Mantua

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Where it lives

Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Ocnus — Lewis & Short

Ocnus or -os, = *)/oknos (sloth).

I The founder of the city of Mantua, Verg. A. 10, 198.—

II An allegorical picture of Socrales the painter, which represented a man twisting a rope, while an ass kept gnawing it apart, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 137.—Hence, prov., of labor in vain, which never comes to an end, Prop. 4, 3, 21.

In the wild

Ocnus Vergil, Aeneid 10.198

Where it came from

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

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