The corpus record — Latin

Salmoneus

Salmoneus · m

a son of Æolus

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Where it lives

In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Salmōneus — Lewis & Short

Salmōneus (trisyl.), ĕos, m., = *salmwneu/s,

I a son of Æolus, brother of Sisyphus, who imitated lightning with burning torches, and was on that account hurled into Tartarus by a thunderbolt from Jupiter, Hyg. Fab. 60; 61; 250; Verg. A. 6, 585 Serv.; Claud. in Rufin. 2, 514; Epigr. ap. Sphaer. Archim. 18.—Hence, Salmōnis, ĭdis, f., = *salmwni/s, Tyro, a daughter of Salmoneus, mother of Neleus and Pelias by Neptune, who assumed the form of Enipeus, Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 13; 1, 13, 21; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 43; Hyg. Fab. 157.

In the wild

Salmoneus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.662
Salmonea Vergil, Aeneid 6.585
Salmonea Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 51.13
Salmoneus Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.514

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.