The corpus record — Latin

Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes · m

a celebrated geographer

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Naturalis Historia 23 · 0.58/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ĕrătosthĕnes — Lewis & Short

ĕrătosthĕnes, is, m., = *)eratosqe/vhs,

I a celebrated geographer, poet, and philosopher of Alexandria, under Ptolemy Euergetes, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 3; Cic. Att. 2, 6; Caes. B. G. 6, 24, 2; Plin. Elench. 2; 5; 2, 108, 112; Quint. 1, 1, 16; 11, 2, 14 al.

In the wild

Eratosthenes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.13.p2
Eratosthenes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.28.p5
Eratosthenes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.74
Eratosthenes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p12
Eratostheni Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p13
Eratosthenes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.30.p3

6 of 34 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.