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Therapnae

Therapnae · f

a small town in Laconia

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What it meant

Thĕrapnae — Lewis & Short

Thĕrapnae (Thĕramnae), ārum, = *qera/pnai, or , ēs, f., = *qera/pnh,

I a small town in Laconia, the birthplace of Helen, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Stat. S. 4, 8, 53.—Hence, Thĕ-rapnaeus (Thĕramn-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Therapnæ, Therapnæan; in the poets for Laconian, Spartan: rus, Ov. H. 15 (16), 196: marita, i. e. Helen, id. A. A. 3, 49: fratres, i. e. Castor and Pollux, Stat. Th. 7, 793; cf.: membra Therapnaea resolutus gymnade Pollux, id. S. 4, 2, 48: Amyclae, Mart. 9, 104, 5.—And, as the Tarentines were an off-shoot from the Laconians, sometimes also for Tarentine: Galesus, Stat. S. 2, 2, 111.—For the same reason, also for Sabine: sanguine Clausi, Sil. 8, 414.

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