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Ophion2

Ophion2 · m

a fabulous animal of Sardinia

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. ŏphīon — Lewis & Short

ŏphīon, ŏnis, m., = o)fi/wn,

I a fabulous animal of Sardinia, Plin. 28, 9, 42, § 151; 30, 15, 52, § 146.

2. ŏphīon — Lewis & Short

ŏphīon, ŏnis, m., = *)ofi/wn,

I a proper name.

I One of the giants, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 348.—

II One of the companions of Cadmus; hence, ŏphīŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ophion; poet. for Theban: Ophionia caedes, i. e. of Pentheus, Sen. Oedip. 483.—

III The father of Amycus, the Centaur; hence, ŏphīŏnĭdes, ae, m., the son of Ophion, the Ophionide, of Amycus, Ov. M. 12, 245.

In the wild

ophion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p7
Ophion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p8
ophion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p10
Ophion Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.348
Ophion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.5.p3

Where it came from

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