The corpus record — Latin

Hamilcar

Hamilcar · m

A general

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Hamilcar 2 · 38.68/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 2 · 1.58/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 2 · 1.29/10k
Punica 8 · 1.05/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Ab urbe condita 9 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

Hămilcar — Lewis & Short

Hămilcar (Amilcar), ăris, m.

I A general, son of Gisgo, slain in besieging Syracuse, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; Val. Max. 1, 7, ext. 8.—

II Hamilcar Barca, the father of Hannibal, Cic. Off. 3, 26, 99; Nep. Ham.; Liv. 21, 2 sq.; Val. Max. 6, 6, 2; Sil. 1, 72 al.

In the wild

Hamilcar Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.1.4
Hamilcar Silius Italicus, Punica 15.747
Hamilcar Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.31.21.18
Hamilcar Silius Italicus, Punica 1.77
Hamilcar Silius Italicus, Punica 2.429
Hamilcaremque Cicero, De Divinatione 1.50.p1

6 of 31 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.