The corpus record — Latin

Caecilius

name of a Roman

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

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 3 · 149.25/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 12s 1 · 103.09/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 8 · 13.75/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 4 · 10.25/10k
Octavius 10 · 8.62/10k
Pro P. Sulla 8 · 8.6/10k
Atticus 3 · 8.48/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 9 · 5.39/10k
De Senectute 4 · 4.84/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 6 · 4.07/10k

Densest 12 of 60 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Caecĭlĭus — Lewis & Short

Caecĭlĭus, a,

I name of a Roman gens.

1 C. Caecilius, Cic. Fl. 36.—

2 Q. Caecilius Metellus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5; Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 82.—

3 His son of the same name, called also Balearicus, for his triumph over the Baleares, Cic. Brut. 74, 259; Flor. 3, 8, 1.—

4 Caia (Gaia) Caecilia, the Roman name of Tanaquil, Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194.—

5 Caeciliae, daughters of Q. Cœcilius Metellus the elder, Cic. Dom. 47, 123.—

6 Caecilia, daughter of Metellus Balearicus, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99, and 2, 40, 83.—

7 Caecilius Statius, a Roman comic poet, of the ante-class. per., of Gallic origin, contemporary with Ennius; his comedies were by the ancients considered equal to those of Plaut. and Ter., and by many even preferred to them, Varr. ap. Non. p. 374, 8; Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 10, 40; id. Att. 7, 3, 10; id. Brut. 74, 258; Hor. A. P. 54 sq.; Quint. 10, 1, 99; Vulcatius Sedigitus ap. Gell. 15, 24.—

II Derivv.

A Cae-cĭlĭus, a, um, adj., Cœcilian, of Cœcilius: familia, Vell. 2, 11; cf.: lex de ambitu, Cic. Sull. 22, 62: lex de repetundis, Val. Max. 6, 9, 10: et Didia lex de legibus ferendis, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1; id. Phil. 5, 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41; 20, 53; id. Sest. 64, 135.—

B Caecĭlĭā-nus, a, um, adj., Cœcilian: fabula, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15: senex (in a comedy of Cæcilius), id. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: pater, Quint. 11, 1, 39; Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56: cerasa, Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 102: lactuca (named after Q. Cæcilius Metellus), id. 19, 8, 38, § 127; cf. Col. 10, 182.—Also,

2 Caecĭlĭānus, i, m., a Roman cognomen, Tac. A. 3, 37; 6, 7; 16, 34.

In the wild

Caecilius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 p10
Caecilius Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.8.5.p2
Caecilium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.28.p1
Caecilius Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.56.5
Caecilius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.29.11.9
Caecilium Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.47.6

6 of 256 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Caecilius (scan p. 304; entry #4787).

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