The corpus record — Latin

pellax

pellax · adj

seductive

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

pellax — Lewis & Short

pellax, ācis, adj.pellicio, = poikilomh/ths,

I seductive, deceitful (poet. and postclass.; cf.: fallax, falsus): invidia pellacis Ulixi, * Verg. A. 2, 90: Juppiter, Arn. 5, 188.

In the wild

pellacis Vergil, Aeneid 2.90
pellacis Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 12.4
pellax Ausonius, Technopaegnion 10.22

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pellax (scan p. 517; entry #8465).

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