Iopas

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Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Iōpās m sg (genitive Iōpae); first declension

  1. Iopas, a bard at the court of Dido
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.740–741:
      Cithara crinitus Iopas / personat aurata, docuit quem maximus Atlas.
      The hairy Iopas plucked golden cithara, he taught what the greatest Atlas .

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

singular
nominative Iōpās
genitive Iōpae
dative Iōpae
accusative Iōpān
ablative Iōpā
vocative Iōpā

References

  • Iopas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.