The corpus record — Latin

florus1

florus1 · adj

shining

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
De Corona 3 · 6.17/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Fasti 4 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. flōrus — Lewis & Short

flōrus, a, um, adj.id.,

I shining, bright (very rare): equus florā et comanti jubā, Gell. 3, 9, 3: crines, lanugo (al. florei and florea); v. floreus, II.

2. Flōrus — Lewis & Short

Flōrus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname. So esp.,

I Julius Florus, a celebrated orator of Gaul, a pupil of Portius Latro, Quint. 10, 3, 13 Spald.; perh. the same to whom the three epistles of the 1st book and the two of the 2d book of the Epistles of Horace are addressed.—

II Florus, called in some MSS. L. Annaeus, in others Julius, who compiled a brief history of Rome; he probably wrote in the time of Hadrian; v. Dict. of Biogr. 2, p. 176 sq.; Teuffel, Roem. Lit. p. 786 sq.—

III Gessius Florus, procurator of Judaea in the reign of Nero, Tac. H. 5, 10.—

IV Julius Florus, a nobleman of the Treviri, a leader of revolt, Tac. A. 3, 40 sqq.

In the wild

Florus Tacitus, Annales 3.p42
Florus Tacitus, Annales 3.p40
florum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.11.p5
flori Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 9
floris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.7.p4
floris Celsus, De Medicina 5.23.p4

6 of 120 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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