The corpus record — Latin

agaso

agaso · m

a driver

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ăgāso — Lewis & Short

ăgāso, ōnis, m.ago, as Sanscr. agas from ag; v. ago,

I a driver, but esp. one who drives and takes care of horses, a hostler, groom, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 11: duo equi cum agasonibus, Liv. 43, 5: agasonem cum equo, Plin. 35, 11, 40, n. 29.—

II Contemptuously, a low servant, lackey: si patinam frangat agaso, Hor. S. 2, 8, 72; Pers. 5, 76.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. agaso (scan p. 319; entry #5040).

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