Elephantis

Ĕlĕphantis, ĭdis (Gr. gen. ĭdos, Mart. 12, 43, 4), f., = Ἐλεφαντίς.

• I An island of the Nile, v. Elephantine.—
• II The name of a licentious Greek poetess, Suet. Tib. 43; Mart. 12, 43, 4; Plin. 28, 7, 24, § 81.

Elephantis, tidis, f. (Ἐλεφαντίς), I) s. Elephantīnē. – II) eine unter den ersten röm. Kaisern lebende Griechin, Verfasserin prosaischer und poetischer Schriften höchst schlüpfrigen u. unzüchtigen Inhalts, Suet. Tib. 43, 2. Mart. 12, 43, 4 (wo griech. Genet. -tidos). Plin. 28, 81.

Ĕlĕphantis, (16) ĭdis, f. (Ἐλεφαντίς), ¶ 1 Éléphantis ou Éléphantine [île du Nil dans la Haute-Égypte, et ville du même nom]: Plin. 5, 59 ¶ 2 nom dʼune femme poète : Mart. 12, 43, 4 || femme qui avait écrit un ouvrage consulté par Pline : Plin. 28, 81.

Elephantis

the writer of certain amatory works (molles Elephantidos libelli,) the character of which is sufficiently evident from the notices contained in Martial and Suetonius. We know not with certainty the sex of the author, nor in what language the pieces were composed, nor whether they were expressed in prose or verse; but the grammatical form of the name seems to indicate that the person in question was a female, and that she was either a Greek by birth or of Greek extraction. By the historians of literature she is generally ranked among the poetesses. (Martial, Mart. 12.43. 5; Suet. Tib. 43; Priopei. iii.; Suidas, s. v. Ἀστυάνασσα) Galen quotes a treatise περὶ κοσμητικῶν by this or some other Elephantis. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 158; comp. Spanheim, de Praestantia et Usu Numism. Diss. ix. p. 771.) [W.R]

Elephantis

(Ἐλεφαντίς). The author of erotic and indecent books, generally supposed to have been a woman, but of whose personality nothing is known. See Mart. xii. 43, 4; Suet. Tib. 43.

Elephantis Elephantis, wife of Danaus

• Apollod. 2.1.5