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Caesarea

Caesarea · f

A very important town in Palestine

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Pharsalia 4 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Caesărēa — Lewis & Short

Caesărēa (-ī^a), ae, f., = *kaisa)reia.

I A very important town in Palestine, previously called Stratonis turris, now Kaisariyeh, Plin. 5, 13, 14, § 69; Tac. H. 2, 78; Eutr. 7, 10; Amm. 14, 8, 11.—Hence,

B Deriv.: Caesărĭensis, e, adj., of Cœsarea: Colonia, Dig. 50, 15, 1.—Caesărĭ-enses, ium, m., its inhabitants, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 120; Dig. 50, 15, 8.—

II A town in Mauritania, earlier called Iol, now Shershell (or, acc. to others, Tniz or Tenez), Mel. 1, 6, 1; Plin. 5, 2, 1, § 20, Eutr. 7, 10.— Hence,

B Caesărĭensis, e, adj., of Cœsarea: Mauretania, Tac. H. 2, 58 sq.—

III The capital of Cappadocia, now Kaisariyeh, Plin. 6, 3, 3, § 8; Eutr. 7, 6; Auct. B. Alex. 66, 4.—

IV A town in Phœnicia, in which Alexander Severus was born, formerly Arca, Aur. Vict. Caes. 24, 1; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 1, 2.

In the wild

Caesaream Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.3.p2
Caesaream Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.9.1
Caesareaeque Lucan, Pharsalia 4.823
Caesareas Suetonius, Divus Augustus 60.1
Caesaream Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.11
Caesareae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.9.p3

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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