The corpus record — Latin

Zetes

Zetes · m

a brother of Calăis and son of Boreas

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Zētes, ae, m., = *zh/ths,

I a brother of Calăis and son of Boreas, one of the Argonauts, Ov. M. 6, 716; Prop. 1, 20, 26.—Collat. form Zētus, i, n., Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 350.

In the wild

Zetes Propertius, Elegiae 1.20.26
Zetes Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.469
Zeten Seneca, Medea 1
Zetis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p5
Zeta Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 68
Zetesque Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.466

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.