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elenchus

elenchus · m

A costly trinket

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ĕlenchus — Lewis & Short

ĕlenchus, i, m., = e)/legxos.

I A costly trinket, ear-pendant, Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 113; Juv. 6, 459; Dig. 34, 2, 32, § 8; cf. Boettig. Sabina II. p. 56.—

II Plur., part of the title of a work of M. Pompilius Andronicus: adeo inops ut coactus est praecipuum illud opusculum suum, annalium Ennii elenchorum XVI. milibus nummum vendere, etc., prob. a review, refutation, Suet. Gram. 8.

In the wild

elenchos Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.459
elenchos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p5

Where it came from

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