The corpus record — Latin

Gaurus

Gaurus · m

a mountain in Campania

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Gaurus — Lewis & Short

Gaurus, i, m.,

I a mountain in Campania, famous for its wine, now Monte Barbaro, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 64; Flor. 1, 16, 5; Cic. Agr. 2, 14, 36: Gaurus inanis (as producing little), Juv. 9, 57.—

II Deriv. Gaurā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mount Gaurus, Gauran: montes, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 60; cf. mons, i. e. the Gaurus, Stat. Th. 8, 546: saltus, Flor. 2, 6, 28: vites, Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 38; cf. vinum, id. 14, 6, 8, § 63: ostrea, i. e. from the Lucrine lake, Juv. 8, 86.

In the wild

Gaurum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p32
Gaurus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.345
Gaure Martial, Epigrammata 9.50.1
Gaure Martial, Epigrammata 9.50.6
Gaure Martial, Epigrammata 5.82.1
Gaurus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.11.16.5

6 of 23 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.