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Democritus

Democritus · m

A celebrated philosopher born at Abdera, an adherent of the Eleatic school, and the originator of the atomic theory

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Where it lives

Academica 3 · 6.16/10k
De Fato 3 · 6.05/10k
Lucullus 10 · 5.56/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 3 · 3.97/10k
De Divinatione 9 · 3.27/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de Natura Deorum 10 · 2.8/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 12 · 2.4/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Naturalis Historia 70 · 1.77/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dēmō^crĭtus — Lewis & Short

Dēmō^crĭtus, i, m., *dhmo/kritos.

I A celebrated philosopher born at Abdera, an adherent of the Eleatic school, and the originator of the atomic theory, Lucr. 3, 372; Cic. Tusc. 1, 11; id. Fin. 1, 6; id. Ac. 2, 17 sq.; id. Fat. 10 et saep.; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 12; id. A. P. 297; Juv. 10, 34 al.—

B Derivv.

1 Dēmŏcrĭtĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Democritus: philosophi, his followers, Cic. Tusc. 1, 34 (in Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42: Democritii, see the foll.).—

2 Dē-mŏcrĭtēus or -īus, a, um, adj., *dhmokri/teios, the same: Anaxarchus, Cic. N. D. 3, 33; id. Tusc. 2, 22: Nausiphanes, id. N. D. 1, 26.—Dēmŏcrĭtīi, ōrum, m., his followers, Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42.—Hence,

b Subst.: Dēmŏcrĭtēa, ōrum, n., the doctrines of Democritus, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 73; id. Div. 2, 13 fin.—

II Of Sicyon, friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 13, 78.

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