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Aegyptus1

Aegyptus1 · f

Egypt

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 5 · 21.6/10k
Agesilaus 3 · 21.6/10k
Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Datames 2 · 10.98/10k
Gallieni Duo 4 · 10.89/10k
De Fide Catholica 2 · 10.37/10k
Probus 4 · 9.7/10k
Pescennius Niger 2 · 8.78/10k
Avidius Cassius 2 · 7.67/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 8 · 7.67/10k
Divus Aurelianus 5 · 6.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 204 · 5.15/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Aegyptus — Lewis & Short

Aegyptus, i, f., = *ai)/guptos,

I Egypt, sometimes reckoned by the ancients as belonging to Asia: Asiae prima pars Aegyptus, Mel. 1, 9: proxima Africae incolitur Aegyptus, etc., Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 48; Cic. Agr. 2, 16; Caes. B. C. 3, 106; Vulg. Gen. 12, 10; ib. Matt. 2, 13.

2. Aegyptus — Lewis & Short

Aegyptus, i, m., acc. to the fable,

I a king of Egypt, son of Belus (acc. to others, of Neptune), and brother of Danaüs. He had fifty sons, to whom the fifty daughters of Danaüs were espoused, Hyg. Fab. 168.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Aegyptus (scan p. 34; entry #212).

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