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Palinurus

Palinurus · m

the pilot of Æneas

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Where it lives

Curculio 8 · 12.98/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Aeneid 13 · 2.05/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Pălĭnūrus — Lewis & Short

Pălĭnūrus, i, m., = *pali/nouros,

I the pilot of Æneas, who fell asleep at the helm and tumbled into the sea off the coast of Lucania, whence the name of the promontory near the spot (now perh. Punta dello Spartimento), Verg. A. 5, 847; 871; 6, 337; 381; Luc. 9, 42; Mel. 2, 4, 9; Hor. C. 3, 4, 28. —In a lusus verbb. with pa/lin ou)rei=n, iterum meiere, Mart. 3, 78, 2.

In the wild

Palinurus Vergil, Aeneid 6.337
Palinurum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p11
Palinurus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.16.3
Palinurus Ovid, Remedia Amoris 577
Palinurus Ovid, Ibis 594
Palinure Plautus, Curculio 1.3

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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