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Theseus

Theseus · m

a king of Athens

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Thēseus — Lewis & Short

Thēseus (dissyl.), -ĕï;, and -ĕos, m., = *qhseu/s,

I a king of Athens, son of Ægeus (acc. to others, of Neptune) and Æthra; husband of Ariadne, and afterwards of Phædra; father of Hippolytus, by the Amazon Hippolyte; friend of Pirithoüs; conqueror of the highway-robbers Periphetes, Sinnis, etc., and of the Minotaur, Ov. M. 7, 433 sq.; id. H. 10, 3; Stat. Th. 12, 576; Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 45; 3, 31, 76; id. Fin. 1, 20, 65; Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 7; Ov. F. 6, 737; Verg. A. 6, 618; Hor. C. 4, 7, 27 al.—Hence,
A Thēsēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Theseus, Thesean: carina, Prop. 1, 3, 1: laus, Ov. M. 8, 263: fides, id. Tr. 1, 3, 66: crimen, i. e. the desertion of Ariadne, id. F. 3, 460; id. A. A. 3, 459.—Transf., poet., for Athenian: via, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 24. Hymettus, Mart. 13, 104, 1: favi, id. 4, 13, 4.—
B Thē-sēïus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Theseus: heros, i. e. Hippolytus, Ov. M. 15, 492: dicta, Stat. Th. 12, 681: Troezen, ruled by the ancestors of Theseus, id. ib. 4, 81.—
C Thēsīdes, ae, m., the offspring of Theseus, i. e. Hippolytus, Ov. H. 4, 65; Aus. Epigr. 20. — Transf., poet., for an Athenian, Verg. G. 2, 383.—
D Thēsēis, ĭdis, f., the title of a poem concerning Theseus, Juv. 1, 2.

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