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charta

charta · m

a leaf of the Egyptian papyrus

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 2 · 8.64/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
Epigrammata 40 · 7.11/10k
Epistularum 6 · 6.6/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Epistulae 5 · 5.05/10k
Elegiae 6 · 4.86/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Carmina 5 · 3.89/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Satyrarum libri 5 · 3.52/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

charta — Lewis & Short

charta, ae (chartus, i, m., Lucil. ap. f., = o/ xa/rths (cf. the letter A),

Non. p. 196, 19).

I a leaf of the Egyptian papyrus, paper, Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 68 sqq.; Lucr. 6, 112; 6, 114; Cic. Att. 5, 4, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 113: dentata, smooth, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14 (15), 1: emporitica inutilis scribendo involucris chartarum segestriumque mercibus usum praebet, Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76: epistulares, Mart. 14, 11 in lemm.; Dig. 33, 9, 3, § 10: novae, ib. 37, 11, 4: purae, ib. 32, 1, 52, § 4: transversa, Suet. Caes. 56: vacuae, Mart. 14, 10, 2.—

B Meton.

1 The papyrus plant itse'f, Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 68.—Far more freq.,

2 That which is written upon paper, a writing, letter, poem, etc., Lucr. 3, 10; 4, 971; Cic. Cael. 17, 70; id. Att. 2, 20, 3; Cat. 1, 6; 68, 46; Hor. C. 4, 9, 31; id. S. 1, 10, 4; id. Ep. 2, 1, 35; 2, 1, 161; 2, 1, 270; id. A. P. 310: Arpinae, i.e. Ciceronis, Mart. 10, 19. —

II Transf., a thin leaf, plate, lamina, tablet (cf. Lidd. and Scott, under xa/rths, 3.): plumbea, Suet. Ner. 20.

Where it came from

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