The corpus record — Latin

Cacus1

Cacus1 · m

son of Vulcan

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Aeneid 7 · 1.11/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

1. Cācus — Lewis & Short

Cācus, i, m., = *ka=kos,

I son of Vulcan, contemporary with Evander, a giant of immense physical strength, who dwelt in a cave on Mount Aventinus, and troubled the whole region around by his robberies; he robbed even Hercules of the cattle of Geryon, and was on that account slain by him, Ov. F. 1, 543 sq.; Liv. 1, 7, 5 sq.; Verg. A. 8, 190 sq., and Serv. in h. l.; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 7; 4 (5), 9, 16; Col. 1, 3, 6; Juv. 5, 125; Sol. 1, §§ 7 and 18.

2. căcus — Lewis & Short

căcus, i, m.perh. kako/s; cf. Engl. villain, rascal, as designations of a servant,

I a servant, Inscr. Vellerm. 7, 1, 27.

3. Cacus — Walde–Hofmann

Cacus, Cacius, Caca, Cacca, Cacehus, Cacus, Cacurius I 127 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Cacus, p. 1769]

In the wild

Caci Vergil, Aeneid 8.241
Cacus Martial, Epigrammata 5.65.6
Cacus Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p12
Cacus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.142
Cacus Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.125
Cacus Propertius, Elegiae 4.9.9

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.