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Pelorus

Pelorus · m

a promontory on the north-eastern coast of Sicily

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pĕlōrus — Lewis & Short

Pĕlōrus (-os), i, m., and Pĕlōrum, i, n., = *pe/lwros,

I a promontory on the north-eastern coast of Sicily, the modern Capo di Faro: Peloros, Ov. M. 13, 727: Pelorus, Sil. 14, 78: Pelorum, Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 73; Mart. Cap. 6, § 646.—Hence,

II Pĕ-lōrĭtānus, a, um, adj., Pelorian: regio, Sol. 5.

In the wild

Pelori Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 41
Pelorum Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 52.79
Peloro Silius Italicus, Punica 4.494
Pelorum Lucan, Pharsalia 6.66
Peloro Ausonius, Mosella pr.218
Peloro Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.350

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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