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Thermodon

Thermodon · m

a river of Pontus

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Where it lives

Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Thermōdon — Lewis & Short

Thermōdon, ontis, m., = *qermw/dwn,

I a river of Pontus, on which dwelt the Amazons, now Termeh Tchai, Mel. 1, 19, 9; Plin. 6, 3, 4, § 10; Verg. A. 11, 659; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 71; Ov. M. 2, 249; id. P. 4, 10, 51; Sil. 8, 432; Just. 2, 4, 2.—Hence,

A Thermōdon-tēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Thermodon, Thermodontean; poet. for Amazonian: agri, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 14 (Müll. Thermodontiacis).—

B Thermōdontĭ-ăcus, a, um, adj., the same: turmae, Stat. S. 1, 6, 56: bipennis, i. e. of Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, Ov. M. 12, 611; cf. securis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 66: aurum, of Hippolyte, Ov. M. 9, 189.—

C Thermō-dontĭus, a, um, adj., the same: ripae, Sen. Med. 215: hostis, id. Herc. Oet. 21.

In the wild

Thermodon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.3
Thermodonque Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.249
Thermodon Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.601
Thermodon Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.121
Thermodon Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.10.51
Thermodontem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.18.p1

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Where it came from

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