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Palamedes

Palamedes · m

son of Nauplius

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pălămēdes — Lewis & Short

Pălămēdes, is, m., = *palamh/dhs,

I son of Nauplius, king of Eubœa, who lost his life before Troy, through the artifices of Ulysses, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; id. Off. 3, 26, 98; Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28. He is said, by observing the flight of cranes, to have invented the letters *q, *c, *f, *x, acc. to others the letters *u and *d, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 192; Mart. 13, 75, 2.—Hence,

A Pălămēdēus, a, um, adj., Palamedean, Manil. 4, 206.—

B Pă-lămēdĭăcus, a, um, adj., Palamedic: Palamediaci calculi, the counters in the game of draughts which Palamedes invented, Cassiod. Var. 8, 31.—

C Pălămēdĭ-cus, a, um, adj., Palamedic, Aus. Techn. de Monosyll. 25.

In the wild

Palamedes Apuleius, Apologia 81
Palamedes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.p3
Palamedem Cicero, Topica 76
Palameden Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.308
Palamedis Seneca, Agamemnon 1
Palamedis Vergil, Aeneid 2.82

6 of 19 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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