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Paestum

Paestum · n

a city of Lucania

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Paestum — Lewis & Short

Paestum, i, n.,

I a city of Lucania, formerly called Posidonia, celebrated for its twice-blowing roses, now Pesti: biferique rosaria Paesti, Verg. G. 4, 119; cf. Ov. M. 15, 708; Prop. 5, 5, 61: oppidum Paestum Graecis Posidonia appellatum, Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 71.—Hence,

II Paestānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pœstum, Pœstan: sinus, Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1: rosae, Ov. P. 2, 4, 28.—In plur.: Paestāni, ōrum, m., the Pœstans, Liv. 37, 10.

In the wild

Paesto Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 p59
Paesti Vergil, Georgicon 4.119
Paesto Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.39.5
Paesti Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.708
Paesto Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p17
Paesti Martial, Epigrammata 5.37.9

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Where it came from

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