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Gellius

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Carmina 8 · 6.22/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 3 · 4.41/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Alexander Severus 4 · 3.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 5 · 3.3/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 6 · 2.89/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Epigrammata 13 · 2.31/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Pro P. Sestio 3 · 1.79/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Gellĭus — Lewis & Short

Gellĭus, a,

I name of a Roman gens; so the historians, Gelii, Cic. Div. 1, 26, 55; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6: L. Gellius, a friend of Cicero, id. ib. 1, 20, 53; id. Balb. 8, 19; 14, 33; and esp.: Aulus Gellius (on account of the abbreviation A. Gellius, formerly falsely called Agellius), a grammarian of the first half of the second century of the Christian era, author of the Noctes Atticae: vir elegantissimi eloquii et multae ac facundae scientiae (Gellius), Aug. Civ. Dei, 9, 4.—

II Deriv.: Gellĭānus, i, m., a slave of one Gellius, Labeo ap. Gell. 13, 12, 4.

In the wild

Gellia Martial, Epigrammata 1.33.1
Gellius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 p29
Gelli Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 111
Gellius Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 6
Gellii Cicero, De Divinatione 1.55
Gellius Catullus, Carmina elegies.89.1

6 of 85 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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