The corpus record — Latin

Epaminondas

Epaminondas · m

the famous general of the Thebans

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Where it lives

Epaminondas 16 · 95.87/10k
Pelopidas 5 · 70.22/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 7 · 1.24/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4 · 0.8/10k
De Officiis 2 · 0.59/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕpămīnōndas — Lewis & Short

ĕpămīnōndas, ae, m., = *)epameinw/ndas,

I the famous general of the Thebans, victor at Leuctra and Mantinea, Nep. Epam.; Just. 6, 7 sq.; Cic. de Or. 3, 34, 139; id. Tusc 1, 2, 4; 1, 15, 33 al.

In the wild

Epaminondae Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas 7
Epaminondas Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus 6
Epaminondas Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.2e.5
Epaminondas Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.7e.5
Epaminondae Cicero, De Inventione 1.70
Epaminondas Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p119

6 of 50 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.