The corpus record — Latin

actium

actium · n

A promontory and town in Epirus

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Where it lives

Excerpta Controversiae 17 · 7.93/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 5 · 5.11/10k
Pro A. Caecina 4 · 3.85/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
De Beneficiis 11 · 2.42/10k
Brutus 6 · 2.39/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Institutio Oratoria 34 · 1.98/10k
De Officiis 6 · 1.77/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 8 · 1.6/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Actĭum — Lewis & Short

Actĭum, i, n.

I A promontory and town in Epirus, on the Ambracian Gulf (now La Punta), where Augustus conquered Antony and Cleopatra, 31 B. C., and, in commemoration of it, repaired the temple of Apollo, which existed there, and revived the Actian games, Mel. 2, 3, 10; Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5; Cic. Fam. 16, 6.—

II A harbor in Corcyra, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3.

In the wild

actio Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.16.1
actio Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.156
actio Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 15.3
actio Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.2.10
actio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.58
actio Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.55.1

6 of 160 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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