Prōteus — Lewis & Short
a sea-god who often changed his form; he was in the service of Neptune
The corpus record — Latin
Proteus
Proteus · m
a sea-god who often changed his form; he was in the service of Neptune
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Distribution
- Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
- Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
- Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
- Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
- Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
- Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
- Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
- Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
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