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The corpus record — Latin

telmessus

telmessus · f

a town in Lycia

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Where it lives

  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 3 · 1.77/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
  • De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
  • Ab urbe condita 5 · 0.1/10k
  • Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Telmessus — Lewis & Short

Telmessus, Telmissus, or Tel-mēsus, i, f., = *telmhssos or *telmisso/s,

I a town in Lycia, near to Caria, at the head of the Glaucus Sinus, now Makri; it was famed for the skill of its inhabitants in divination, Cic. Div. 1, 41, 91; Mel. 1, 15, 3; Plin. 30, 1, 2, § 6; Liv. 38, 39.—Hence,
A Telmessĭcus (Telmissĭcus, -mē-sicus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Telmessus, Telmessian: Telmissicus sinus, Liv. 37, 16 Telmessicum vinum, Plin. 14, 7, 9, § 74.—
B Telmissĭus, a, um, adj., of Telmissus, Telmissian. Ptolemaeus, Liv. 37, 56, 4.—As subst. Telmissĭi, ōrum, m., the innabitants of Telmissus, the Telmissians: Castra Telmissium, Liv. 37, 56 Drak. N. cr. (s. l. v.).—
C Telmesses (-me-ses), ĭum, m., Cic. Div 1, 42, 94; or Tel-messenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Telmessus, the Telmessians, Tert. Anim. 46. —
D Telmessis, ĭdis, adj. f., Telmessian: sinus, Luc. 8, 248.

In the wild

6 of 13 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.