The corpus record — Latin

calathus

calathus · m

a wicker basket

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

călăthus — Lewis & Short

călăthus, i, m., = ka/laqos.

I Lit., a wicker basket, a hand-basket (pure Lat. quasillum, made in the shape of a lily); acc. to diff. uses, a flower-basket, a wool-basket, a thread-basket or a fruit-basket, etc.; cf. Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 23; Vitr. 4, 1, 9; Verg. E. 2, 46; Ov. F. 4, 435: calathi Minervae, Verg. A. 7, 805; Ov. A. A. 2, 219; id. H. 9, 73; 9, 76; Juv. 2, 54; Ov. A. A. 2, 264; id. M. 12, 475.—

II Meton., any other vessel of similar form, of metal or wood.

A For milke, etc., a milk-pail, bowl, Verg. G. 3, 402; Col. 10, 397; cf. id. 7, 8, 3.—

B For wine, a wine-cup, Verg. E. 5, 71; so Mart. 9, 60, 15; 9, 14, 107.—

C Transf., the cup or calix of a flower, Col. 10, 99 Schneid.; so id. 10, 240; Aus. Idyll. 14, 31; cf. Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 23.

In the wild

calathis Martial, Epigrammata 8.6.16
calathi Ovid, Fasti 2.742
calathi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.5.p1
calathos Martial, Epigrammata 9.59.15
calathum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.33
calathis Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.460

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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