helops
Dictionary entries
- Entry →helops, helopis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
- Field:
- Agriculture
fish; (perhaps sturgeon);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Chalcedonia, muraena Tartesia, aselli Pessinuntii, ostrea Tarenti, petunculus ..., helops Rhodius, scari Cilices, nuces Thasiae, palma Aegyptia, glans Hiberica..." 
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...hastis continuat; ferrum consumpsit pectore Phyleus, ore momordit Helops, umero transmisit Iapyx. iamque et quadriiugo celsum petit Haemona..."- P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...minorem victori titulum quam Dictys Helopsque dederunt, fixus Helops iaculo, quod pervia tempora fecit et missum a dextra..."