dryade
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Dryas, Dryadis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Agriculture
Dryad; wood-nymph;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...dicunt increvisse suis, obstrusaque carbasa pullo naides et dryades passosque habuere capillos. membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sertaque cingebant, voti argumenta potentum. saepe sub hac dryades festas duxere choreas, saepe etiam manibus nexis ex ordine..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sorores naides et sectos fratri posuere capillos, planxerunt dryades; plangentibus adsonat Echo. iamque rogum quassasque faces feretrumque parabant..."