Bessus — Lewis & Short
Bessus, i, m.
I A Bessian; v. Bessi. —
II *bh=ssos, a viceroy of Bactria, the murderer of Darius Codomannus, Curt. 5, 8, 4; 5, 9, 2; Just. 12, 5, 10.
The corpus record — Latin
Bessus
Bessus · m
A Bessian
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Where it lives
- Historiae Alexandri Magni 40 · 5.39/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Besso Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.13.13
- Bessus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.13.6
- Bessus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 6.6.13
- Besso Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.15.2
- Bessus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.4.9
- Bessus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.4.20
6 of 40 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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