The corpus record — Latin

Davus

Davus · m

a name given to Roman slaves

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

Where it lives

Andria 269 · 273.04/10k
Phormio 33 · 30.43/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Satyrarum libri 6 · 4.23/10k
Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Dāvus — Lewis & Short

Dāvus (Davos), i, m.,

I a name given to Roman slaves, freq. in the comedies of Plaut. and Ter.; cf. also Hor. S. 1, 10, 40; 2, 5, 91; id. A. P. 114; Pers. 5, 161; 168 al. —Prov.: Davus sum, non Oedipus, Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 24.

In the wild

Dave Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.12.4
Davum Terence, Andria 4.4
Davusne Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 114
DAVUS Terence, Andria 2.2
DAVUS Terence, Andria 1.3
DAVUS Terence, Andria 2.3

6 of 315 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.