The corpus record — Latin

Caucasus

Caucasus · m

The rough Caucasian chain of mountains

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Argonautica 6 · 1.61/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 8 · 1.08/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Caucăsus — Lewis & Short

Caucăsus, i, m., = *kau/kasos.

I The rough Caucasian chain of mountains, in.habited by wild tribes, in Asia, between the Black and Caspian Seas, Mel. 1, 15, 2; Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 37; Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: inhospitalis, Hor. C. 1, 22, 7; id. Epod. 1, 12; cf. Verg. A. 4, 366; acc. Gr. Caucason, Ov. M. 8, 798; Stat. Th. 4, 394.—Hence,

B Caucă-sĭus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Caucasus, Caucasian: montes, Mel. 1, 19, 13; 2, 4, 8: vertex, Verg. G. 2, 440: rupes, Prop. 2, 1, 69: aves, id. 2 (3), 25, 14: volucres, Verg. E. 6, 42: arbores, Prop. 1, 14, 6: Portae, a narrow pass between the Caucasus and the mare Hyrcanum, Plin. 6, 11, 12, § 30.—

II A name of a horse, Sil. 16, 357.

In the wild

Caucason Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.798
Caucasum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p1
Caucason Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.95
Caucasis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.13.p3
Caucasum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.4.22
Caucasum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.5.5

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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