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flammeus

flammeus · adj

flaming

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flammĕus — Lewis & Short

flammĕus, a, um, adj.id.,

I flaming, fiery.

I Lit.: sunt stellae naturā flammeae, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118; Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: halitus, Col. 5, 5, 15; Mart. 10, 62, 6.—

B Transf., of color, flaming, flamecolored, fiery red: lumina, Ov. H. 12, 107: flammeum quod phlox vocatur, Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 64: murex, Val. Fl. 5, 361: vestimentum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 92 Müll.—Deriv.,

2 Subst.: flammĕum, i, n.

(a) A fiery red color: aliquid flammei, aliquid lutei, Sen. N. Q. 1, 3, 4.—

(b) = phlox, the flame-red violet, Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 64.—

(g) (sc. velum), a (flame-colored) bridal-veil, Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46: capere, Cat. 61, 8: sumere, Juv. 2, 124: puellae caput involvere flammeo, Petr. 26, 1: flammea texuntur sponsae, Mart. 11, 78, 3; 12, 42, 3; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 325; Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.; cf. Non. p. 541 fin.; Becker's Gall. 2, p. 24 sq.: lutea, Luc. 2, 361; Mart. Cap. 5, § 538; Verg. Cir. 317.—Poet.: flammea conterit, i. e. changes husbands repeatedly, Juv. 6, 225.—

II Trop.: flaming, glowing (ante- and post-class.): versus, Enn. ap. Non. 139, 15 (Sat. 7, p. 155 ed. Vahl.): acres et flammei viri, Sid. Ep. 1, 7.

In the wild

flammeo Petronius, Satyricon 26
flammeus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.4
flammeo Suetonius, Nero 28.1
flammea Claudian, Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 4.4
flammeus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.208
flammea Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 25.14

6 of 81 attestations shown.

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