lyncum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lynx, lyncis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
lynx; lynx skin/pelt; fictitious tree (invented to explain lyncurium/ligure);
gen. pl.
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...corpora, tu biiugum pictis insignia frenis colla premis lyncum. bacchae satyrique sequuntur, quique senex ferula titubantis ebrius artus..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...velatam frondibus hastam; quem circa tigres simulacraque inania lyncum pictarumque iacent fera corpora pantherarum. exsiluere viri, sive..." - T
Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deserta in montes propinquos refugientibus barbaris inueniebantur. ad Lyncum statiua posuit prope flumen Beuum; inde frumentatum circa horrea..." - T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iunctique cum eo Romani belli per Pelagoniam et Lyncum et Bottiaeam in Thessaliam descendit--ad bellum secum aduersus..."