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Caninius

the name of a plebeian

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Where it lives

Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De bello Gallico 9 · 1.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Bello Civili 3 · 0.93/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 5 · 0.43/10k
Letters to Atticus 5 · 0.41/10k

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

What it meant

Cănīnĭus — Lewis & Short

Cănīnĭus, a,

I the name of a plebeian gens at Rome.

I C. Caninius Rebilus, lieutenant of Cœ sar in Gaul, consul for a few hours at the end of December, A. U. C. 709; hence the jest of Cicero: Caninio consule scito neminem prandisse, Cic. Fam. 7, 30, 1; cf. id. Att. 12, 37, 4.—

II Caninius Rebilus, perh. a son of the preceding, notorious for his abandoned life, Sen. Ben. 2, 21, 5.—

III L. Caninius Gallus, accuser of Antony, afterwards his son-in-law, Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 1; 1, 4, 1; 2, 8, 3; 7, 1, 4; 9, 2, 1; Val. Max. 4, 2, 6. —Hence, Cănīnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Caninius Gallus: tempus, the time when Caninius proposed that Pompey should restore the dethroned king Ptolemy, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 3 Manut.

In the wild

Caninio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.1.3
Caninium Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.26.3
Caniniumque Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.32.1
Caninio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.13.3
Caninium Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.90.6
Caninium Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.24.2

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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