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Latin
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iōpās m sg (genitive Iōpae); first declension
- 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.
References
- Iopas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.