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Pandion

Pandion · m

A king of Athens

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Pandīon — Lewis & Short

Pandīon, ŏnis, m., = *pandi/wn.

I A king of Athens, father of Progne and Philomela, Hyg. Fab. 48; Ov. M. 6, 426; 676: Pandionis populus, i. e. the Athenians, Lucr. 6, 1143: Pandione nata, i. e. Progne, Ov. M. 6, 634.—Transf., for the nightingale, Ov. P. 1, 3, 39: Cecropiae Pandionis arces, Mart. 1, 26, 3.—Hence,

B Pandīŏnĭus, a, um, adj., Pandionian: Pandioniae Athenae, Ov. M. 15, 430: Pandionia Orithyia, the sister of Pandion, Prop. 1, 20, 31: res Pandioniae, the Athenian state, Claud. IV. Cons. Honor. 506: arces, the citadel of Athens, id. Rapt. Pros. 2, 19; also called mons, Stat. Th. 2, 720: volucres, the nightingale and the swallow, Sen. Octav. 8: cavea, the Athenian theatre, Sid. Carm. 23, 137.—

II A son of Jupiter and Luna, Hyg. Fab. praef.

In the wild

Pandion Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.426
Pandion Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.495
Pandion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p4

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