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Therodamas

Therodamas · m

a Scythian king

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Thērŏdămas — Lewis & Short

Thērŏdămas, antis, m., = *qhroda)mas (beast-feeder),

I a Scythian king, who fed lions with human flesh, Ov. P. 1, 2, 121.—Hence, Thērŏdămantēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Therodamas, Therodamantean: leones, Ov. Ib. 385 (others read, in both places, Theromedon, Theromedonteus.)

In the wild

Therodamas Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.233

Where it came from

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