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Lewis Short
Baucis (noun F) : Βαῦκις.
* The wife of Philemon, in Phrygia. She, with her husband, entertained, in a very hospitable manner, Jupiter and Mercury, who came to them in the form of men; in return for which they were changed to two sacred trees before their hut, which became a temple,Ov. M. 8, 631 sq.
* Meton., an old woman, Pers. 4, 21.
* The wife of Philemon, in Phrygia. She, with her husband, entertained, in a very hospitable manner, Jupiter and Mercury, who came to them in the form of men; in return for which they were changed to two sacred trees before their hut, which became a temple,Ov. M. 8, 631 sq.
* Meton., an old woman, Pers. 4, 21.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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