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Thetis

a sea-nymph

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Achilleis 8 · 11.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Thĕtis — Lewis & Short

Thĕtis, ĭdis, or ĭdos (

abl. also Theti;

I v. the foll.; ante-class. collat. form Thĕlis, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll., or Trag. v. 431 Vahl.; cf.: antiqui ut Thetin Thelim dicebant, sic Medicam Melicam vocabant, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 19), f., = *qe/tis, a sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris, wife of Peleus, and mother of Achilles, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 17; Hyg. Fab. 54; 244; Ov. M. 11, 221 sq.; 11, 400; Cat. 64, 21; Hor. C. 1, 8, 14; 4, 6, 6 al.; abl. Thetide, Hor. Epod. 13, 12: Theti, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 33; Lact. 1, 11, 9; cf. Prisc. p. 709.—

II Transf., appel., the sea (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): temptare Thetin ratibus, Verg. E. 4, 32: hic summa levi stringitur Thetis vento, Mart. 10, 30, 11; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 148: lapilli Thetidis, pearls, Stat. S. 4, 6, 18; and, hyperbol., of a large bath, Mart. 10, 13, 4.

In the wild

Thetis Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.400
Thetis Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.264
Thetis Statius, Silvae 3.2.74
Thetis Martial, Epigrammata 10.30.11
Thetis Statius, Thebais 1.39
Thetis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.131

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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