The corpus record — Latin

Gavius

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Pro P. Sestio 2 · 1.19/10k
In C. Verrem 10 · 1/10k
Noctes Atticae 11 · 0.98/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
Letters to Atticus 5 · 0.41/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Gāvĭus — Lewis & Short

Gāvĭus, a,

I name of a Roman gens. So L. Gavius, who was crucified by Verres, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 61 sq.—Hence, Gāvĭānus, a, um, adj., of Gavius: crux, Lact. 4, 18.

1 †† gāza, ae, f. Persian; Gr. ga/za, the treasure, the royal treasure, in Persia.

I Lit.: regia, Nep. Dat. 5; cf.: gaza (sic Persae aerarium vocant), Mel. 1, 11, 3: pecunia regia, quam gazam Persae vocant, Curt. 3, 13, 4; 5, 1, 3; 5, 6, 5 al. —

II Transf., in gen., treasure, riches, wealth: qui ab auro gazaque regia manus cohibere possit, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 23, 66: multa dona ex Hieronis gaza, Liv. 25, 25, 13; id. 45, 41, 6; Suet. Aug. 41; and Tac. A. 6, 37; Cic. Off. 2, 22, 76; Suet. Tib. 49; id. Ner. 31; id. Galb. 18; Verg. A. 2, 763; 5, 40; Val. Fl. 6, 562; Mart. 12, 53, 3 al.—In plur.: quoniam nil nostro in corpore gazae Proficiunt, neque nobilitas, etc., Lucr. 2, 37; so Hor. C. 1, 29, 2; 2, 16, 9; Sen. Phoen. 504; id. Herc. Fur. 167; id. Med. 485 al.

In the wild

Gavius Tacitus, Annales 15.p62
Gavius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.3.6
Gavius Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.9.8
Gavius Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.21.1
Gaviae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.32.p2
Gavi Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.17.4

6 of 37 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.