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Tiresias

Tiresias · m

A celebrated blind soothsayer of Thebes

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Where it lives

Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Thebais 8 · 1.28/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tīrĕsĭas — Lewis & Short

Tīrĕsĭas, ae, m., = *teiresi/as.

I A celebrated blind soothsayer of Thebes, Hyg. Fab. 68; 75; Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 115; id. Div. 1, 40, 88; 2, 3, 9; id. N. D. 2, 3, 7; Ov. M. 3, 323; 6, 157; Hor. S. 2, 5, 1; Stat. Th. 10, 589.—

II Transf., for a blind man, Juv. 13, 249.

In the wild

Tiresiae Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 5.P3
Tiresiae Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.323
Tiresias Seneca, Oedipus 1
Tiresiam Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.7
Tiresias Statius, Thebais 4.470
Tiresias Cicero, De Divinatione 2.9.p1

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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