The corpus record — Latin

Ballio

Ballio · m

the name of a worthless pimp in the Pseudolus of Plautus

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Where it lives

Pseudolus 210 · 189.74/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

Ballio — Lewis & Short

Ballio, ōnis, m.,

I the name of a worthless pimp in the Pseudolus of Plautus; hence, for designating any worthless man, Cic. Phil. 2, 6, 15; id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20.— Whence, Ballĭōnĭus, a, um, adj., of Ballio, Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 2.

In the wild

Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7
Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3
Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3
Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 4.6
Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7
Ballio Plautus, Pseudolus 3.2

6 of 213 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.