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Pentheus

Pentheus · m

son of Echion and Agave

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Where it lives

Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Metamorphoses 9 · 1.16/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pentheus — Lewis & Short

Pentheus, ĕi and ĕos, m., = *penqeu/s,

I son of Echion and Agave, grandson of Cadmus, and king of Thebes; having treated with contempt the rites of Bacchus, he was torn in pieces by his mother and her sisters when under the influence of the god, Ov. M. 3, 514; Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 24; 3 (4), 22, 33; Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 40; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 73; id. C. 2, 19, 14.—Hence,

A Penthēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pentheus, Penthean: mater, Sid. Carm. 22, 94.—

B Penthēus, a, um, adj., = *penqei=os, of or belonging to Pentheus, Penthean, Stat. Th. 2, 575.—

C Penthīdes, ae, m., = *penqei/dhs, a male descendant of Pentheus, Ov. Ib. 449 and 609.

Where it came from

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