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Parnasus

Parnasus · m

a high mountain in Phocis with two peaks

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 2 · 1.19/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Pharsalia 4 · 0.79/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Parnāsus — Lewis & Short

Parnāsus and -os, also Parnas-sus or -os, i, m., = *parnaso/s, afterwards *parnasso/s,

I a high mountain in Phocis with two peaks, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, at whose foot was the city of Delphi and the Castalian spring, now range of Liakhoura, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 3, 4, § 7: mons ibi verticibus petit arduus astra duobus, Nomine Parnasus, Ov. M. 1, 317: biceps, id. ib. 2, 221; Pers. prol. 2: uterque, Stat. Th. 7, 346: Parnasi deserta per ardua, Verg. G. 3, 291: Parnasus gemino petit aethera colle, Luc. 5, 72.—Hence,

A Parnāsēus (Parnass-), a, um, adj., Parnassian: Phoebus, Avien. Arat. 619.—

B Parnāsis (Parnass-), ĭdis, f. adj., Parnassian: lauro Parnaside vinctus, Ov. M. 11, 165.—

C Parnāsĭus (Parnass-), a, um, adj., Parnassian: rupes, Verg. E. 6, 29: laurus, id. G. 2, 18: templa, of Apollo, Ov. M. 5, 278: Themis, so called because she possessed the Delphic oracle before Apollo, id. ib. 4, 642: vox, the Delphic oracle, Val. Fl. 3, 618: tu, precor, ignarum doceas, Parnasia, vatem, O muse! Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 71.

In the wild

Parnasi Statius, Silvae 4.4.47
Parnasus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.3.p5
Parnase Statius, Silvae 1.2.223
Parnaso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p6
Parnasus Lucan, Pharsalia 5.131
Parnason Seneca, Phoenissae 1

6 of 42 attestations shown.

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