The corpus record — Latin

Dareus

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Where it lives

De Regibus 2 · 45.15/10k
Miltiades 5 · 37.48/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 54 · 7.28/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 6 · 5.35/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8 · 1.01/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dārēus — Lewis & Short

Dārēus (so the best editt. of Cicero and Curtius; cf. Zumpt, Gramm. § 2) or Dā-rīus (Dărĭī,

Sid. Carm. 9, 51:

I Dărīos, Aus. Ep. 5, 23, v. no. II.), ii, m., *da/reios [a Persian word, from R. dar-, to hold: "the sustainer of the empire," Max. Müller, Science of Lang. 2, 220], the name of several Persian Kings, Cic. Fin. 5, 30 fin.; Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 41; Curt. and Just. passim; Ov. lb. 317; Claud. Epist. 1, 17.—*

II Meton. for the gold coin stamped under Darius, a daric, Aus. l. l.—Hence, Darīus, a, um, adj. (late Lat.), of Darius, opes, Mart. Cap. 6, § 578.

In the wild

Dareus Seneca, De Ira 3.16.3
Dareus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.12.5
Dareus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.12.3
Darii Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 8
Darium Tacitus, Annales 12.p13
Darium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.5.7

6 of 110 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.