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Ophites2

Ophites2 · m

a kind of marble spotted like a snake

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. ŏphītes — Lewis & Short

ŏphītes, ae, m., = o)fi/ths (snakestone),

I a kind of marble spotted like a snake, serpentine-stone: ophites serpentium maculis similis, unde et nomen accepit, Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 55; 36, 22, 43, § 158; Mart. 6, 42, 15; Luc. 9, 714.

2. ŏphītes — Lewis & Short

ŏphītes, ae, m., = *)ofi/ths,

I a son of Hercules, Hyg. Fab. 32.

In the wild

ophitis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.22.p1
ophitae Martial, Epigrammata 6.42.15
ophite Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.22.p1
ophites Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.18.p2
ophites Statius, Silvae 1.5.35
ophite Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.7.p2

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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