The corpus record — Latin

Telegonus

Telegonus · m

son of Ulysses and Circe

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Tēlĕgŏnus — Lewis & Short

Tēlĕgŏnus, i, m., = *thle/gonos,

I son of Ulysses and Circe, who, when he came to Ithaca, killed his father without knowing him; on his return he founded Tusculum, Hyg. Fab. 127; Hor. C. 3, 29, 8; Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 4; Ov. F. 3, 92; 4, 71; Stat. S. 1, 3, 83; Sil. 7, 692; 12, 535; Hyg. Fab. 127.—As an appellative: Tēlĕgŏni, ōrum, the amatory poems of Ovid, so called because his misfortunes arose from them, Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 114.

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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.