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Tithonus

Tithonus · m

son of Laomedon

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Amores 3 · 1.92/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tīthōnus — Lewis & Short

Tīthōnus or -nos, i, m., = *tiqwno/s,

I son of Laomedon, consort of Aurora, and father of Memnon; endowed with immortality, and changed at last, after reaching a decrepit old age, into a cicada, Cic. Sen. 1, 3; Verg. A. 4, 585; Ov. F. 6, 473; Hor. C. 2, 16, 30; 1, 28, 8: Tithoni conjux, Ov. H. 17 (18), 111.—Hence,

A Tīthōnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tithonus, Tithonian: conjux, i. e. Aurora, Ov. F. 3, 403.—Called also, absol.: Tīthōnia, Ov. F. 4, 943; Val. Fl. 1, 311; 3, 1; Stat. Th. 12, 3: senectus, id. S. 4, 3, 151. —

B Tīthōnaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tithonus: Memnon, Avien. Perieg. 368. —

C Tīthōnis, ĭdis, f., the wife of Tithonus, i. e. Aurora, Stat. S. 5, 1, 34.

In the wild

Tithonum Plautus, Menaechmi 5.2
Tithoni Ovid, Amores 2.5.35
Tithone Ovid, Fasti 6.473
Tithoni Propertius, Elegiae 2.18b.3
Tithonique Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.8.3
Tithonum Horace, Carmina 2.16

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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