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
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..."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..."Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deserta in montes propinquos refugientibus barbaris inueniebantur. ad Lyncum statiua posuit prope flumen Beuum; inde frumentatum circa horrea..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iunctique cum eo Romani belli per Pelagoniam et Lyncum et Bottiaeam in Thessaliam descendit--ad bellum secum aduersus..."