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Latin
Etymology
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Proper noun
Phyllius m sg (genitive Phylliī or Phyllī); second declension
- a Bœotian who was in love with Cygnus
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?)
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Phyllĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Phyllĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,178/2.