caesar — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

De Bello Africo 144 · 110.72/10k
De Bello Civili 285 · 88.25/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 7 · 82.35/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 9 · 82.12/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 42 · 69.39/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 69 · 66.18/10k
De bello Gallico 309 · 60.23/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 19 · 57.93/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 21 · 53.79/10k
Pro M. Marcello 14 · 50.6/10k
Precationes 2 · 43.2/10k
Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k

Densest 12 of 156 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Caesar — Lewis & Short

Caesar, ăris (CAESERIS, C. I. L. 4, 2308; m., = *kai=sar [a caeso matris utero,

Inscr. Orell. 4205: CAESARVS, C. I. L. 1, 696), Plin. 7, 9, 7, § 47; cf. Non. p. 556, 32:

I a caesarie dictus, qui scilicet cum caesarie natus est, Fest. p. 44; cf. Comment. p. 383. Both etymm. also in Isid. Orig. 9, 3, 12, and Spart. Ael. Ver. 2. Better acc. to Doed. Syn. III. p. 17, from caesius, caeruleus, the color of the skin; cf. Rufus], a cognomen in the gens Julia. Of these the most celebrated, C.Julius Caesar, distinguished as general, orator, statesman, and author, was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius, B.C. 44. After him all the emperors bore the name Caesar, with the title Augustus, until, under Adrian, this difference arose: Augustus designated the ruling emperor; Caesar, the heir to the throne, the crown-prince, etc., Spart. Ael. Ver. 1, § 2; Aur. Vict. Caes. 13, § 12.—

II Derivv.

A Caesărīnus, a, um, adj., of or relating to the triumvir Julius Cœsar, Cœsarian: celeritas, Cic. Att. 16, 10, 1 Orell. N.cr.—

B Caesărĭānus, a, um, adj.

1 Of the triumvir Cœsar, Cœsarian: bellum civile, Nep. Att. 7, 1.— Hence, Caesărĭāni, ōrum, m., the adherents of Cœsar in the civil war (as Pompeiani, his opponents), Hirt. B. Afr. 13: orationes, orations of Cicero in which Cœsar was praised (pro Marcello, Deiotaro, De Provinciis Consularibus, etc.), Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 131.—

2 Imperial, Vop. Carin. init.: Pallas (esp. honored by Domitian), Mart. 8, 1.—Hence, subst.

a Caesărĭāni, ōrum, m.

(a) A class of provincial imperial officers, Cod. Just. 10, 1, 5; 10, 1, 7; Cod. Th. 10, 7.—

(b) Partisans of Cœsar, Auct. B. Afr. 13; Flor. 4, 3.—

b Caesărĭānum, i, n., a kind of eye-salve, Cels. 6, 6, n. 27.—

C Caesă-rĕus, a, um, adj.

1 Of or pertaining to the triumvir Cœsar, Cœsarian (mostly poet.): sanguis, Ov. M. 1, 201: Penates, id. ib. 15, 864: Vesta, id. ib. 15, 865: forum, founded by him, Stat. S. 1, 1, 85.—

2 Imperial: amphitheatrum, built by the emperor Domitian, Mart. Spect. 1, 7: leones, presented by Domitian in the fight of wild beasts, id. Epigr. 1, 7, 3.

In the wild

Caesaris Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.9.18
Caesar Lucan, Pharsalia 10.130
Caesaris Ovid, Tristia 5.9.11
Caesar Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 81.p2
Caesaris Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.100
Caesar Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 5.25.2

6 of 2,935 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. caesar (scan p. 108; entry #1503).