The corpus record — Latin

Byzantium

Byzantium · n

a city in Thrace

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Where it lives

Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Gallieni Duo 4 · 10.89/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 4 · 7.8/10k
Divus Aurelianus 4 · 5.12/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 3 · 1.98/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Letters 4 · 0.62/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Bȳzantĭum — Lewis & Short

Bȳzantĭum, ii, n., = *buza/ntion,

I a city in Thrace, on the Bosphorus, opposite the Asiatic Chalcedon, later Constantinopolis, now Constantinople; among the Turks, Istamboul or Stamboul (i.e. eis th\n po/lin), Mel. 2, 2, 6; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 46; 9, 15, 20, § 50 sq.; Nep. Paus. 2, 2; Liv. 38, 16, 3 sq.; Tac. A. 12, 63 sq.; id. H. 2. 83; 3, 47 al.—

II Derivv.

A Bȳzantĭus, a, um, adj., of Byzantium, Byzantine: litora, the Strait of Constantinople, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 31: portus, Plin. 9, 15, 20, § 51.—Subst.: Bȳ-zantĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Byzantium, Cic. Prov. Cons. 3, 5; 4, 6 sq.; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 31, § 76; Nep. Timoth. 1, 2; Liv. 32, 33, 7.—

B Bȳzantĭăcus, a, um, adj., of Byzantium: lacerti, Stat. S. 4, 9, 13. —

C Bȳzantīnus, a, um, adj., the same (post-class.): Lygos, Aus. Clar. Urb. 2: frigora, Sid. Ep. 7, 17.

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