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Cicero

Cicero · m

a Roman cognomen in the

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 65 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Cĭcĕro — Lewis & Short

Cĭcĕro, ōnis, m., = *kike/rwn,

I a Roman cognomen in the gens Tullia.
I M. Tullius Cicero, the greatest of the Roman orators and writers; born on the 3d of January, 106 B.C. (648 A.U.C.), at Arpinum (hence Arpinae chartae, Mart. 10, 19, 17); assassinated, at the age of sixty-three years, by the soldiers of Antonius, 43 B.C. (711 A.U.C.): ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit, Quint. 10, 1, 112; Juv. 10, 114 al.— Hence,
B Cĭcĕrōnĭānus, a, um, adj., Ciceronian: simplicitas, Plin. praef. § 22: mensa, id. 13, 16, 30, § 102: aquae, in the villa of Cicero, at Puteoli, medicinal to the eyes, id. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—Subst.: Ciceronianus es, non Christianus, i. e. a follower of Cicero, Hier. Ep. 22, n. 30.—
II Q. Tullius Cicero, the brother of I., whose work, De petitione consulatūs, is yet extant.

In the wild

6 of 1,216 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.