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Pasiphae

daughter of Helios

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Pāsĭphăē — Lewis & Short

Pāsĭphăē, ēs, and Pāsĭphăa, ae, = *pasifa/h (the All-shining),

I daughter of Helios, sister of Circe, wife of Minos, and mother of Androgeus, Phœdra, and Ariadne, and also of the Minotaur by a beautiful bull, which Venus, out of hatred, had inspired her with a passion for, Ov. A. A. 1, 295; Cic. N. D. 3, 19, 48; id. Div. 1, 43, 96; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 14; Hyg. Fab. 40: Pasiphaen nivei solatur amore juvenci, Verg. E. 6, 46: Pasiphaae fano, Cic. Div. l. l.: Pasiphaes gener, i.e. Theseus, Ov. Ib. 90.— Hence,

II Pāsĭphăēïus, a, um, adj., Pasiphœan.—In the fem. subst.: Pāsĭ-phaēïa, Phœdra, Ov. M. 15, 500.

In the wild

Pasiphaë Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.295
Pasiphae Silius Italicus, Punica 8.471
Pasiphae Ovid, Epistulae 4.57
Pasiphae Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 70.2
Pasiphaë Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.303
Pasiphae Propertius, Elegiae 2.28c.6

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Where it came from

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