The corpus record — Latin

Telephus

Telephus · m

A king of Mysia

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tēlĕphus — Lewis & Short

Tēlĕphus (-os), i, m., = *th/lefos.

I A king of Mysia, son of Hercules and the nymph Auge. He was wounded before Troy by the spear of Achilles, but was afterwards oured by its rust, Ov. M. 12, 112; 13, 171; id. Tr. 5, 2, 15; Hor. A. P. 96; 140; id. Epod. 17, 8; Hyg. Fab. 101; Plin. 34, 15, 45, § 152; 25, 5, 19, § 42.—

II A contemporary and friend of Horace, Hor. C. 3, 19, 26; 1, 13, 1; 4, 11, 21.

In the wild

Telephus Seneca, Troades 1
Telephus Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 96
Telephus Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 22.46
Telephus Juvenal, Saturae 1.1.5
Telephum Historia Augusta, Verus 2
Telephus Petronius, Satyricon 139

6 of 22 attestations shown.

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.