The corpus record — Latin

Chremes

Chremes · m

the name of an old miser in the Andria

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Heautontimorumenos 265 · 241.19/10k
Phormio 119 · 109.74/10k
Andria 77 · 78.16/10k
Eunuchus 54 · 49.8/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Chrĕmes — Lewis & Short

Chrĕmes, ētis or is, m., = *xre/mhs,

I the name of an old miser in the Andria, Heaut., and Phormio of Terence, Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 3; id. Off. 1, 9, 30; Hor. Epod. 1, 33; gen. Chremi, Ter. And. 2, 2, 31; acc. Gr. Chremeta, Hor. S. 1, 10, 40; voc. Chreme, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 1; 4, 1, 11 al.: Chremes, id. Eun. 3, 3, 29; dat. Chremeti, id. Phorm. 5, 8, 37; acc. Chremen, id. ib. 1, 2, 13: Chremem, id. And. 2, 2, 24: Chremetem, id. ib. 3, 1, 14.

In the wild

Chremes Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 94
CHREMES Terence, Heautontimorumenos 4.8
CHREMES Terence, Heautontimorumenos 1.1
CHREMES Terence, Phormio 4.3
CHREMES Terence, Eunuchus 4.6
CHREMES Terence, Heautontimorumenos 4.8

6 of 523 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.