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Olympus2

Olympus2 · m

The name of several mountains

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.21/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 6 · 3.54/10k
Georgicon 5 · 3.53/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ŏlympus — Lewis & Short

ŏlympus and -pos (anciently written Olĭmpus), i, m., = *)/olumpos.

I The name of several mountains, the most celebrated of which is one on the borders of Macedonia and Thessaly (now Lacha), of great height, and consequently regarded as the seat of the gods, Mel. 2, 3, 2; 4, 8, 15: Musae quae pedibus magnum pulsatis Olimpum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Müll.: his diis Helicona atque Olympon attribuerunt homines, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 7: frondosus, Verg. G. 1, 282: opacus, Hor. C. 3, 4, 52: nubes excedit Olympus, Luc. 2, 271.—

B Transf., poet. for heaven: caelum dicunt Graeci Olympum, Varr. L. L. 7, § 20; Verg. E. 6, 86: longus Olympus, the distant heavens, id. G. 3, 223: annuit (Juppiter) et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum, id. A. 9, 106: stelliger, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1907.—Hence, ŏlympĭădes, um, f., the Muses (perh. only acc. to the foll. remark): caelum dicunt Graeci Olympum montem in Macedoniā omnes, a quo potius puto Musas dictas Olympiadas, Varr. L. L. 7, § 20.—

II Of other mountains.

A In Bithynia, Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 148.—

B In Mysia, Plin. 5, 32, 40, § 142.—

C In Galatia, Liv. 38, 18, 15; 38, 20, 2.—

D In Lycia, Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31. —

E In Ionia, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 118.—

F In Peloponnesus, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 352.

2. ŏlympus — Lewis & Short

ŏlympus, i, f.,

I a city in Cilicia, named from a neighboring mountain, now the ruins of Deliktash: Olympum cepit, urbem antiquam et omnibus rebus auctam, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 56 (Zumpt N. cr.); Flor. 3, 6, 5; Eutr. 6, 3.—

II A city of Lycia, named from a neighboring mountain, Cic. Ac. 1, 21, 56.

3. ŏlympus — Lewis & Short

ŏlympus, 1, m.,

I a famous fluteplayer, pupil of Marsyas, Ov. M. 6, 393; id. P. 3, 3, 42; Hyg. Fab. 165; Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 29.

In the wild

Olympo Vergil, Aeneid 8.280
Olympus Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.3.42
Olympo Vergil, Aeneid 7.218
Olympum Tibullus, Elegiae 3.7.12
Olympus Ovid, Fasti 3.442
Olympus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.27.p7

6 of 140 attestations shown.

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