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Orithyia

Orithyia · f

a female proper name

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Where it lives

Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ōrīthȳīa — Lewis & Short

ōrīthȳīa (quadrisyl.), ae, f., = *)wrei/quia,

I a female proper name.

I A daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens; who became by Boreas the mother of Calaïs and Zetes, Ov. M. 6, 683; Verg. G. 4, 463; id. A. 12, 83; Sil. 8, 5, 16; Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 3.—

II A queen of the Amazons, Just. 2, 4, 17.

In the wild

Orithyian Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.707
Orithyiae Propertius, Elegiae 1.20.31
Orithyiae Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.695
Orithyia Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.695
Orithyiae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.468
Orithyia Propertius, Elegiae 2.26b.32

6 of 14 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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