The corpus record — Latin

Athenae

Athenae · f

Athens

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Where it lives

Chabrias 4 · 81.8/10k
Aristides 2 · 58.48/10k
Pelopidas 4 · 56.18/10k
Timotheus 3 · 46.08/10k
Phocion 2 · 37.52/10k
Themistocles 6 · 35.05/10k
Miltiades 4 · 29.99/10k
Alcibiades 6 · 29.7/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 3 · 18.95/10k
Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
Atticus 5 · 14.14/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k

Densest 12 of 132 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăthēnae — Lewis & Short

ăthēnae, ārum, f., = *)aqh=nai.

I Athens, the capital of Attica, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 1; id. Leg. 2, 14, 36; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 194; Hor. S. 1, 1, 64; Juv. 3, 80; Vulg. Act. 17, 15; 17, 16; ib. 1 Thess. 3, 1 al.; cf. Mann. Gr. p. 308 sq., the Grecian city of the Muses, Cic. Fl. 26.—Hence sometimes meton. for intelligence, Juv. 15, 110; and Athenae Novae, as an appel. of honor for Mediolanum, Plin. Ep. 4, 13.—

II The name of other cities in Laconia, Caria, Eubœa, Acarnania, Italy, Arabia, etc., Varr. L. L. 8, § 35 Müll.; Liv. 45, 16 al.

In the wild

Athenis Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.91
Athenis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.12.1
Athenas Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 p31
Athenis Cicero, De Republica 3.33
Athenis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.83
Athenis Apuleius, Apologia 72

6 of 566 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.