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Iapys
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Latin
Pronunciation
I.āpys
Noun
Iāpys/Iāpyd<3.both> m
la quasi-adjectival en Iapydian
29 BC, P. Vergilius Maro (aut.), J.B. Greenough (ed.), Georgica in The Bucolics, Æneid, and Georgics of Virgil (1900), bk iii, ll. 474–477:
Tum sciat, aerias Alpis et Norica si quis castella in tumulis et Iapydis arva Timavi nunc quoque post tanto videat desertaque regna pastorum et longe saltus lateque vacantis.
Well would he trow it who, so long after, still high Alps and Noric hill-forts should behold, and Iapydian Timavus’ fields, ay, still behold the shepherds’ realms a waste, and far and wide the lawns untenanted. ― tr. ibidem
Declension
Attested only in the genitive singular.
Iāpys/Iāpyd<3.both>
References
Iāpys
Iāpys 763/2
1 Ĭāpys 817/1
la hapax legomena