The corpus record — Latin

Ecbatana

Ecbatana · n

the principal city of Media

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Where it lives

Historiae Alexandri Magni 7 · 0.94/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

Ecbătăna — Lewis & Short

Ecbătăna, ōrum, n., = ta\ *)ekba/tana (Ecbătăna, ae. f., Lucil. ap. Ecbătănae, ārum, f., App. de Mundo, p. 69, 18),

Non. 533, 30;

I the principal city of Media, now Hamadan, Curt. 4, 5, 8; 5, 8, 1; Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 42; Tac. A. 15, 31 al.

In the wild

Ecbatana Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.22
Ecbatanis Tacitus, Annales 15.p32
Ecbatanis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.27.p3
Ecbatana Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.10.10
Ecbatana Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.26.p1
Ecbatanis Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.13.1

6 of 15 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.