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Euphrates

Euphrates · m

A wellknown river in Syria

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 27 · 3.64/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 7 · 2.66/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Res Gestae 30 · 2.35/10k
Elegiae 5 · 1.98/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Annales 17 · 1.91/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Pharsalia 8 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Euphrātes — Lewis & Short

Euphrātes (in Inscr. also EVFRATES), is, m., = *eu)fra/ths,

I A wellknown river in Syria, which rises in Armenia, and, after its junction with the Tigris, empties into the Persian Gulf, now Frat, Mel. 1, 11, 2; 3, 8, 5; Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 83 sqq.; Prud. Ham. 562; Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Plin. Pan. 14; abl. Euphratē, Luc. 8, 358.—

2 Meton., the dwellers on its banks, Verg. G. 1, 509.—Hence,

A Euphrā-taeus, a, um, = *eu)fratai=os, of the Euphrates, i. e. Armenian: diademata, Stat. S. 2, 2, 122.—

B Euphrātis, ĭdis, f., adj., of the Euphrates: ripa, Sid. Ep. 8, 9. —

II A philosopher in the time of the younger Pliny, Plin. Ep. 1, 10.—†

III A rare Roman surname: M. IVNIVS EVFRATES, Inscr. in Bull. dell. Inst. 1844, p. 90.

Where it came from

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