The corpus record — Latin

Teleboae

Teleboae · m

a people in Acarnania

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

Tēlĕbŏae — Lewis & Short

Tēlĕbŏae, ārum, m., = *thlebo/ai,

I a people in Acarnania, noted for robbing travellers, Plaut. Am. prol. 101; 1, 1, 56; 1, 1, 95 al. A colony of them afterwards inhabited the island of Capreae: Teleboūm Capreas regna, Verg. A. 7, 735; Tac. A. 4, 67; Sil. 7, 418.—Hence, Tēlĕbŏis, ĭdis, adj., of Teleboæ, Teleboic.—Plur, as subst.: Tēlĕbŏĭdes, um, f., the name of some small islands between Leucadia and Achaia, Plin. 4, 12, 19, § 53.

In the wild

Teleboasque Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.441
Telebois Tacitus, Annales 4.p67

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.