The corpus record — Latin

Bessi

Bessi · m

a savage and marauding people in the north-eastern part of Thrace

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 25 · 3.37/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Bessi — Lewis & Short

Bessi, ōrum, m., = *be/ssoi, Strab.; *bhssoi/, Herod.,

I a savage and marauding people in the north-eastern part of Thrace, about the Hœmus mountains, and in the vicinity of the Hebrus, Veg. Mil. 2, 11; 4, 24; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 40; Cic. Pis. 34, 84; Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 5; 4, 1, 67; Suet. Aug. 3; Isid. Orig. 9, 2, 91.—Sing.: Bessus, i, m., Inscr. Orell. 3548; 3552.—Hence, Bessĭcus, a, um, adj., of the Bessi: gens, Cic. Pis. 34, 84.

In the wild

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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