The corpus record — Latin

Balbillus

Balbillus · m

a scholar

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Where it lives

Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Balbillus — Lewis & Short

Balbillus, i, m.,

I a scholar, prefect in Egypt, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 13; Tac. A. 13, 22; Plin. 19, 1, prooem. § 3 Jan. (al. Balbilius, Babbillus).

In the wild

Balbillus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.praef
Balbillo Tacitus, Annales 13.p22
Balbillo Suetonius, Nero 36.1

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.