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Peneus

Peneus · m

a principal river in Thessaly

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Pharsalia 4 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Ab urbe condita 8 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

Pēnēus — Lewis & Short

Pēnēus, i, m., = *phneio/s,

I a principal river in Thessaly, which rises in Mount Pindus, flows through the Vale of Tempe, and falls into the Gulf of Therma, the modern Selembria; in mythology, a rivergod, the father of Cyrene and Daphne, Ov. M. 1, 569 sq.; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 31; Liv. 32, 15; Verg. G. 4, 355; Hyg. Fab. 161; 203.— Voc. Penee, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 31.—Hence,

A Pēnēis, ĭdis, f., = *phnhi/s, of or belonging to the Peneus, Penean (poet.): Nympha, i.e. Daphne, Ov. M. 1, 504; 1, 472.—

B Pē-nēĭus, a, um, adj., = *phnh/i+os, of or belonging to the Peneus, Penean (poet.): Peneia Tempe, Verg. G. 4, 317: arva, Ov. M. 12, 209: Daphne, id. ib. 1, 452: amnis, i. e. the Peneus, Luc. 8, 33.—

C Pēnēus, a, um, adj., Penean (poet.): undae, Ov. M. 7, 230.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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