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Catina

Catina · f

a town on the east coast of Sicily

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Where it lives

In C. Verrem 3 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Cătĭna — Lewis & Short

Cătĭna (in MSS. also Cătăna), ae (Cătănē, ēs, f., = *kata/nh,

Sil. 14, 196),

I a town on the east coast of Sicily, at the foot of Ætna, now Catania, Mel. 2, 7, 16; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185; 2, 3, 83, § 192 al.—Hence,

II Cătĭnensis (Cătĭnĭensis, Just. 4, 3, 4; and Cătă-nensis, Lact. 2, 4, 28), e, adj., belonging to Catina, of Catina: civitas, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 8, § 17: pumex, Juv. 8, 16: L. Manlius Catinensis, Cic. Fam. 13, 30, 1.—In plur.: Cătĭnenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Catina, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 120; 2, 3, 43, § 103.

In the wild

Catinam Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.50
Catinam Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.11.7
Catinam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.8.p1
Catinae Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.50
Catinae Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.30.1
Catinam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.34.p3

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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