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Cestius

Cestius · m

the name of a Roman plebeian family

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 5 · 4.87/10k
Controversiae 23 · 3.49/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 5 · 2.33/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Annales 6 · 0.68/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Cestĭus — Lewis & Short

Cestĭus, ĭi, m.,

I the name of a Roman plebeian family.

I C. Cestius, Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 26.—

II L. Cestius Pius, a rhetorician of Smyrna, Sen. Contr. 3, prooem. p. 206, 3 al.—Hence, Cestĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to L. Cestius: color, Sen. Contr. 1, 7, p. 125.

Where it came from

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

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