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Palaemon

Palaemon · m

A sea-god

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Where it lives

Eclogues 5 · 11.02/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pălaemon — Lewis & Short

Pălaemon, ŏnis, m., = *palai/mwn.

I A sea-god, formerly called Melicerta, the son of Athamas and Ino: O Palaemon, sancte Neptuni comes, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 70; Cic. N. D. 3, 15, 39; Verg. A. 5, 823; Ov. M. 4, 542; id. H. 17, 159.—Hence,

B Pălae-mŏnĭus, a, um, of or belonging to the seagod Palœmon, poet. for Corinthian, Stat. Th. 2, 380: Palaemoniae coronae, won at the Isthmian games, which were celebrated in honor of Palœmon, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 289.—

II Remmius Palaemon, a Roman grammarian in the time of Tiberius and Claudius, Quint. 1, 4, 20; 1, 5, 60; Suet. Gram. 23; Juv. 6, 451; 7, 215; Pers. 2, 86.—

III A shepherd, Verg. E. 3, 50.

In the wild

Palaemoni Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.4.p2
Palaemon Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.156
Palaemonis Statius, Thebais 10.425
Palaemon Ovid, Fasti 6.501
Palaemon Vergil, Eclogues 3
Palaemonem Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.39.p2

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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