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Pedum2

Pedum2 · n

a shepherd's crook

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pĕdum — Lewis & Short

pĕdum, i, n.id.,

I a shepherd's crook, a sheep-hook, Verg. E. 5, 88: pedum est baculum incurvum, quo pastores utuntur ad comprehendendas oves, aut capras a pedibus: cujus meminit etiam Vergilius in Bucolicis, Fest. p. 249 Müll.; cf. id. ib. p. 210 Müll.; cf. also: pedum virga incurvata, unde retinentur pecudum pedes, Serv Verg. l. l.

2. Pĕdum — Lewis & Short

Pĕdum, i, n.,

I a town of remote antiquity in Latium, near Rome, prob. the mod. Gallicano, Liv. 2, 39; 8, 12; 13.— Hence,
II Pĕdānus, a, um, adj., of Pedum, Pedan: regio, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 2.—Subst.: Pĕdānum, i, n. (sc. praedium), an estate near Pedum, Cic. Att. 9, 18, 3.—Pĕdāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Pedum, the Pedans, Liv. 8, 14.

Where it came from

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