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Rhamnus

Rhamnus · f

the northernmost town of Attica

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Where it lives

Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Rhamnūs — Lewis & Short

Rhamnūs, untis, f., = *(ramnou=s,

I the northernmost town of Attica, famed for an ancient temple of Themis, and in later times for a statue of Nemesis, the mod. Ovriokastro, Plin. 4, 7, 11, § 24; 36, 5, 4, § 17; Luc. 5, 233.— Hence,

1 Rhamnūsĭus, a, um, adj., Rhamnusian Rhamnusium se aiebat esse, from Rhamnus, Ter. And. 5, 4, 27: Antiphon, Cic. Brut. 12, 47: virgo, i. e. Nemesis, Cat. 66, 71; also called dea, Claud. B. Get. 631; and simply Rhamnūsia, ae, f., Ov. M. 3, 406; id. Tr. 5, 8, 9; Stat S. 3, 5, 5. —

2 Rhamnūsis, ĭdis, f., the Rhamnusian goddess, i. e. Nemesis, Ov. M. 14, 694.

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