The corpus record — Latin

bivius

bivius · adj

having two ways

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bĭvĭus — Lewis & Short

bĭvĭus, a, um, adj.bis-via,

I having two ways or passages (rare; not in Cic.): fauces, Verg. A. 11, 516.—So, calles, Val. Fl. 5, 395: di, deae, worshipped at cross-roads, Inscr. Orell. 2105.—Hence, substt.

A bĭvĭi (sc. di), Inscr. Orell. 389; 2104.—

B bĭvĭum, i, n., a place with two ways, or where two ways meet.

1 Lit.: in bivio portae, Verg. A. 9, 238: ad bivia consistere, Liv. 38, 45, 8; Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 144; Vulg. Marc. 11, 4.—

2 Trop.: bivium nobis ad culturam dedit natura, experientiam et imitationem, a twofold means or method, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 7.—Of a twofold love, Ov. R. Am. 486.

In the wild

bivio Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.3.9.7
bivias Vergil, Aeneid 11.516
bivium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.6
bivio Ovid, Remedia Amoris 486
bivio Ausonius, Mosella pr.32
bivium Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.790

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