The corpus record — Latin

Alcides

Alcides · m

a male descendant of Alceus

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 61 · 54.15/10k
Hercules 19 · 24.96/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Argonautica 26 · 6.99/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Silvae 11 · 4.39/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Alcīdes — Lewis & Short

Alcīdes, ae, m., = *)alkei/dhs,

I a male descendant of Alceus; usu. his grandson Hercules, Verg. E. 7, 61; id. A. 8, 203; 10, 321: quid memorem Alciden? id. ib. 6, 123; so Hor. C. 1, 12, 25; Tib. 4, 1, 12; Prop. 1, 20, 49: non fugis, Alcide, Ov. H. 9, 75; voc. also Alcidā, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1343.

In the wild

Alcides Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.475
Alcides Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Alciden Lucan, Pharsalia 4.611
Alciden Seneca, Phaedra 1
Alcides Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.586
Alciden Ovid, Fasti 2.318

6 of 218 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.