giganta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Gigas, Gigantis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Mythology
giant; Giant; the Giants (pl.); (race defeated by the Olympians);
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Atlanta dedit; caeloque timente olim Phlegraeo stantis serpente gigantas erexit montes, bellumque inmane deorum Pallados e medio confecit..."Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...hominum conferre labores,non aliter Phlegra rabidos tollente gigantas 145Martius incaluit Siculis incudibus ensiset rubuit flammis iterum Neptunia..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...recitabo tibi, ipse tuos nobis relegas licet usque Gigantas, rura vel aeterno proxima Vergilio. LIII Claudia caeruleis..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...puerum, nos Langona vivum: tu magnus luteum, Gaure, Giganta facis. LI Quod semper superos invito fratre rogasti..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...horrida Mauortis in me rueret—aduersus feros audax Gigantas obuias ferrem manus. nec Sphinga caecis uerba nectentem modis..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...primus audierit preces idemque summus: unicum fulmen peto; giganta crede (non minus caelum mihi asserere potui—dum patrem..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...uoluptas, non, si consertum super haec mihi membra Giganta subueheres.' uolat hasta tremens et hiantia monstri ora subit..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terris securior arduus aether, adfectasse ferunt regnum caeleste gigantas altaque congestos struxisse ad sidera montis. tum pater omnipotens..."