The corpus record — Latin

Antonius

Antonius · m

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 73 · 71.05/10k
Philippicae 299 · 56.88/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 46 · 48.23/10k
Atticus 12 · 33.94/10k
Divus Augustus 36 · 26.85/10k
De Oratore 104 · 17.27/10k
Historiae 84 · 16.32/10k
Domitianus 4 · 11.62/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 29 · 11.01/10k
Brutus 24 · 9.56/10k
Gordiani Tres 5 · 9/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 100 · 8.59/10k

Densest 12 of 88 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Antōnĭus — Lewis & Short

Antōnĭus, ii, m.,

I name of a Roman gens.

I M. Antonius, Marc Antony, a distinguished triumvir, conquered by Octavianus at Actium, a mortal enemy of Cicero. —

II M. Antonius, a celebrated orator just before the age of Cicero; cf. Cic. Brut. 37 sq.; Ellendt, Cic. Brut. p. lxii. sq.; Bähr, Lit. Gesch. 355; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 139.—

III C. Antonius, Cicero's colleague in the consulship.—

IV Fem.: Antōnĭa, ae, a daughter of the triumvir Antonius, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 16.—Derivv.

A Antōnĭus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Antonius: leges Antonias fregi, i. e. proposed by the triumvir Antonius, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14 fin. B. and K.—Hence, Antōnĭi, the adherents of the triumvir Antonius, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34.—

B Antō-nĭānus, a, um, adj.

1 Of or pertaining to the triumvir Antonius: contra Antonianos, Cic. Fam. 10, 34; 12, 25 fin.; Vell. 2, 74; Sen. Ben. 2, 25; hence, also Antōnĭā-nae, ārum, f. (sc. orationes), the orations of Cicero against Antonius (com. called Philippicae; v. Philippicus), Gell. 7, 11; 13, 1 and 21.—

2 Of or pertaining to the orator Antonius: dicendi ratio, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13.

In the wild

Antonius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 12.10.3
Antoni Cicero, Philippicae 9.15.p2
Antonium Cicero, Philippicae 3.9
Antonium Cicero, De Oratore 3.16
Antonios Cicero, Philippicae 7.16
Antonium Cicero, Philippicae 2.87

6 of 1,289 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.