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Pergus

Pergus · m

a lake in Sicily

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pergus — Lewis & Short

Pergus, i, m.,

I a lake in Sicily, near the city of Enna, where Pluto is said to have carried off Proserpine, the mod. Lago Pergusa, Ov. M. 5, 386; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 112.

Where it came from

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

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