The corpus record — Latin

beneficus

beneficus · adj

generous

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Where it lives

Cum Populo Gratias Egit 5 · 18.93/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 4 · 9.24/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
De Beneficiis 30 · 6.6/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 4 · 5.88/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 5 · 4.3/10k
Pro L. Murena 4 · 3.79/10k
De Officiis 11 · 3.25/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
De Lege Agraria 4 · 2.9/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bĕnĕfĭcus — Lewis & Short

bĕnĕfĭcus (better than bĕnĭfĭcus), a, um, adj.bene-facio (

I comp. and sup. regularly formed, beneficentior, Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 5; 5, 9, 2: beneficentissimus, Cic. Lael. 14, 51; id. N. D. 2, 25, 64; ante-class. beneficissimus, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 603 P.), generous, liberal, beneficent, obliging, favorable (rare but class.): de Ptolemaeo rege optimo et beneficissimo, Cato, l. l.: beneficum esse oratione, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 14: ubi beneficus, si nemo alterius causā benigne facit? Cic. Leg. 1, 18, 49: in amicum, id. Off. 1, 14, 42; 1, 14, 44: sunt enim benefici generique hominum amici, id. Div. 2, 49, 102: beneficus, salutaris, mansuetus civis, id. Mil. 8, 20; id. Lael. 9, 31; cf. Gell. 17, 5, 4: actio, Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 5.—* Adv.: bĕnĕfĭcē, beneficently: facere, Gell. 17, 5, 13.

In the wild

beneficus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.5.11
benefici Cicero, Cum Populo Gratias Egit 22
beneficos Cicero, De Officiis 1.43.p1
beneficiorum Seneca, De Beneficiis 1.3.5
benefici Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.24.3
benefici Cicero, De Officiis 1.42.p1

6 of 186 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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