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Orontes

The principal river of Syria

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏrontes — Lewis & Short

ŏrontes, is or ae (

I gen. Oronti, Verg. A. 1, 220), m., = *)oro/nths.

I The principal river of Syria, now Nahr El-Ashy, Mel. 1, 12, 5; Plin. 5, 21, 18, § 79; Prop. 2, 23 (3, 17), 21.—Hence, ŏrontēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Orontes, Orontian; poet. for Syrian: Orontea myrrha, Prop. 1, 2, 3.—

II A chief of the Lycii and companion of Æneas, Verg. A. 1, 113; 220.

Where it came from

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