The corpus record — Latin

elogium

elogium · n

an utterance

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 2 · 13.4/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k
Apologeticum 5 · 2.5/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ē-lŏgĭum — Lewis & Short

ē-lŏgĭum, ii, n.logus; cf. Rost. Opusc. Plaut. I. p. 93 sq.,

I an utterance, short saying, sentence.—In partic.

I A short maxim, saying: Solonis, Cic. de Sen. 20, 73.—

II An inscription on a tombstone (so most freq.), Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19; Cic. de Sen. 17, 61; id. Fin. 2, 35; id. Tusc. 1, 14, 31; id. Pis. 29 fin.; Suet. Claud. 1 al. (Vide old examples of such Elogia in Orell. Inscr. 534 sq.) Also on doors, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 74; on the images of ancestors, Suet. Galb. 3; on votive tablets, id. Calig. 24.—

III A clause in a will (especially which disinherits one), Cic. Clu. 48, 135; cf. Quint. 7, 4, 20; Dig. 28, 2, 14 fin.; 37, 10, 1, § 9; Suet. Vita Hor. sub init.; hence, in the Cod. Just., ultima elogia, for last will or testament in gen., Cod. 3, 28, 37, § 1 al.—

IV A judicial statement, record, abstract in criminal cases (respecting the criminal's offence, punishment, etc.), Suet. Calig. 27; Spart. Sever. 2; Lampr. Alex. Sever. 33; Amm. 7, 2; 19, 12: vertices sub uno elogio jussit occidi, a single warrant, id. 14, 7, 1; so the jurid. expression: mittere aliquem cum elogio, to send a criminal before the proper magistrates, with a specification of his offence, Dig. 48, 3, 11; 49, 16, 3 al.

2. elogium — Walde–Hofmann

elogium, -; n. „Spruch als Grabschrift. auf Ahnenbildern usw.“; überhaupt „kurzgefaßte Sentenz“, daher in der Kaiserzeit „strafrichterliches Urteil, polizeiliche Tatbestandsaufnahme, kurzer Krankheitsbericht u. dgl.“ (seit Cato; davon -äre „kurz angeben“ Cael. Aur.; 8. v. Premerstein PW. V 2440 ff.): aus gr. &Aeyeiov (vgl. &eyeia’ cà erırdpia norhuata Hes.) umgestaltet nach Aöyog (vgl. auch ante-logium Pit. Men. 13 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. elogium, p. 431]

In the wild

elogium Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.10
elogio Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.13
elogio Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 21
elogium Tertullian, De Anima 17
elogium Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 412
elogio Petronius, Satyricon 53

6 of 56 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. élogium (scan p. 218; entry #3370).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. elogium (scan p. 431; entry #1008).

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