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Gorgias

Gorgias · m

A famous Greek sophist of Leontini

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Where it lives

Orator 7 · 3.79/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Brutus 3 · 1.2/10k
Institutio Oratoria 17 · 0.99/10k
De Oratore 5 · 0.83/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Gorgĭas — Lewis & Short

Gorgĭas, ae, m., = *gorgi/as.

I A famous Greek sophist of Leontini, a contemporary of Socrates, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 22, 103; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 12, 39 et saep.—

II A rhetorician in Athens, instructor of Cicero's son, and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by Rutilius Lupus, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6.—

III A sculptor of Sparta, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 49.

In the wild

Gorgian Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.102
Gorgiam Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.1.39
Gorgian Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.11.21
Gorgiam Cicero, De Oratore 1.47
Gorgias Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.13e.2
Gorgia Petronius, Satyricon 141

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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