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Ennius

Ennius · m

the most celebrated Roman poet of the ante-class. period

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Where it lives

Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 3 · 9.62/10k
De Senectute 6 · 7.26/10k
Noctes Atticae 78 · 6.97/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
De Divinatione 13 · 4.73/10k
Orator 7 · 3.79/10k
De Republica 8 · 3.67/10k
Brutus 9 · 3.59/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ennĭus — Lewis & Short

Ennĭus, i, m.

I Q. Ennius, the most celebrated Roman poet of the ante-class. period, the father of Roman epic poetry, born at Rudiae, in Calabria, 515, died 585 A. U. C.; Ter. And. prol. 18; Cic. Brut. 18, 73 sq.; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 50.—Cf. respecting him, Teuffel's Gesch. der Röm. Lit. p. 157 sq., Bernhardy's Grundriss der Röm. Lit. pp. 188 sq., 360 sq., and the authorities cited by both.—

B Derivv.

1 Ennĭā-nus, a, um, adj., Ennian: versus, Sen. Ep. 108; cf. Gell. 12, 2, 7: distichon, Mart. Cap. 1, § 42: Neoptolemus, id. 5, 15 fin.: populus, the admirers of Ennius's poetry, Sen. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 10.—

2 Ennĭānista, ae, m., an imitator of Ennius, Auct. ap. Gell. 8, 5, 3.—

II L. Ennius, a Roman knight, Tac. A. 3, 70.

In the wild

Ennium Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p38
Ennii Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p118
Enni Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.4
Ennium Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.1
Ennius Propertius, Elegiae 3.3.6
Ennii Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.56.5

6 of 247 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. Ennius (scan p. 264; entry #4130).

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