The corpus record — Latin

Damasippus

Damasippus · m

a follower of Marius, who acted with great cruelty towards the adherents of Sylla; afterwards put to death by order of…

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
Catilina 2 · 1.87/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Dămăsippus, i, m., *dama/sippos (tamer of horses),

I Prætor 672 A. U. C., a follower of Marius, who acted with great cruelty towards the adherents of Sylla; afterwards put to death by order of Sylla, Sall. C. 51, 32; Vell. 2, 26, 2; Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 3.—

II A surname in the gens Licinia, Caes. B. C. 2, 44; Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2 sq.; id. Att. 12, 29 fin.; 33, 1 al.—

III Name of a bankrupt merchant and ridiculous Stoic philosopher, Hor. S. 2, 3, 16 sqq.—

IV Name of an actor, Juv. 8, 147.

In the wild

Damasippus Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.64
Damasippus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.21.3
Damasippus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.23.2
Damasippique Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 89
Damasippum Sallust, Catilina 51.p4
Damasippi Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.29.2

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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