1. gryllus — Lewis & Short
gryllus (also grillus), i, m., = gru/llos.
I A cricket or grasshopper, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.—
II Transf., in painting, a kind of comic figures, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 114.
The corpus record — Latin
gryllus1
gryllus1 · m
A cricket
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
- Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
- Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
- De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
2. Gryllus — Lewis & Short
Gryllus, i, m., =*gru/llos,
I a Greek proper name.
I A son of Xenophon, who fell in the battle at Mantinea, and was celebrated by Aristotle in a monogram entitled *gru/llos, Quint. 2, 17, 14.—
II A Roman proper name, Mart. 1, 60, 3; 2, 14, 13.
3. grullus — Lewis & Short
grullusei)=dos ploi/ou, Gloss. Philox.
In the wild
- Gryllo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.17.14
- grylli Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p8
- Gryllum Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.32.3
- Gryllum Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.10e.2
- gryllus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.4.p3
- gryllis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.5.p1
6 of 18 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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