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Latin
Etymology
From Τελαμώνιος (Telamṓnios).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Telamōnius m sg (genitive Telamōniī or Telamōnī); second declension
- son of Telamon, Ajax the Great
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 13.194:
- ...quo si Telamonius isset, / orba suis essent etiam nunc lintea ventis.
- If Telamon’s son had gone, our sails would still be waiting for the winds.
8 CE – 12 CE,
Ovid,
Sorrows 2.525:
- utque sedet uultu fassus Telamonius iram,
inque oculis facinus barbara mater habet,
sic madidos siccat digitis Venus uda capillos,- Not only does Ajax sit there, his look betraying wrath,
and savage Medea, a mother with sin in her face,
but Venus, damp, too, wringing wet hair in her fingers,
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- Telamonius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.