The corpus record — Latin

grandaevus

grandaevus · adj

in years

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Where it lives

de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Argonautica 7 · 1.88/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

grandaevus — Lewis & Short

grandaevus, a, um, adj.grandisaevum,

I in years, old, aged (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Nereus, Verg. G. 4, 392: Alethes, id. A. 1, 121: Emathion, Ov. M. 5, 99: pater, id. ib. 8, 519: patres, id. ib. 7, 160: senes, Tac. H. 3, 33: manus, i. e. the Senate, Sil. 16, 653: alios (deos) esse grandaevos semperque canos, alios juvenes atque pueros, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 17: apes, Verg. G. 4, 178: consilia, of an aged man, Val. Fl. 7, 348.

In the wild

grandaevus Vergil, Georgicon 4.392
grandaevique Propertius, Elegiae 2.25.6
grandaevus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.12.12
grandaeuos Silius Italicus, Punica 4.29
grandaevum Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.518
grandaevum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.267

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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