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aeneus

aeneus · adj

of bronze

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Where it lives

Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
De agri cultura 13 · 8.31/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Re Coquinaria 3 · 1.91/10k
De Architectura 10 · 1.73/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

aēnĕus — Lewis & Short

aēnĕus (less freq. ăhēn-), a, um, adj.,

I of bronze [aes].

I Of copper or bronze: equus, Cic. Off. 3, 9: statua, id. Phil. 9, 6: candelabra, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26: loricae, Nep. Iphicr. 1; Hor. C. 3, 3, 65; 3, 9, 18; 3, 16, 1; id. Ep. 2, 1, 248: ahenea proles, the brazen age, Ov. M. 1, 125: aëneus (quadrisyl.) ut stes, i. e. that a bronze statue may be erected to thee, id. Sat. 2, 3, 183.—

II Of the color of bronze: barba, Suet. Ner. 2; cf. Aenobarbus.

In the wild

aeneum Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.30
aenei Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.2e.9
aeneis Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.3.8
aeneam Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.41.13.2
aeneus Horace, Epistulae 1.1.60
aeneis Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 5.8

6 of 74 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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