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Damon

Damon · m

A Pythagorean, celebrated on account of the friendship between him and Phintias

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Where it lives

Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Dāmon — Lewis & Short

Dāmon, ōnis, m.*da/mwn.

I A Pythagorean, celebrated on account of the friendship between him and Phintias, Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45; Val. Max. 4, 7.—

II An Athenian musician, teacher of Socrates, Cic. de Or. 3, 33; Nep. Epam. 2.—

III A goat-herd, Verg. E. 3, 17; 8, 1 sq.

In the wild

Damone Cicero, De Oratore 3.132
Damon Ausonius, Epistularum 27.43
Damon Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.7e.1
Damonis Vergil, Eclogues 8.1
Damon Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p261
Damon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.p3

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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