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hariolus

hariolus · m

a soothsayer

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Where it lives

Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hărĭŏlus — Lewis & Short

hărĭŏlus (ar-), i, m., and harĭŏla, ae, f.Sanscr. hira, entrails; Gr. xordh/, xola/des; cf. haruspex,

I a soothsayer, prophet, prophetess (= augur, auspex, haruspex, extispex).

(a) Masc.: hariolos, haruspices Mitte omnes: quae futura et quae facta, eloquar, Plaut. Am. 5, 2, 2; cf.: ut haruspices, augures, harioli, vates et conjectores nobis essent colendi, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 55; Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 4; id. Men. prol. 76; id. Poen. 3, 5, 46; Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 27; Cic. Div. 1, 2, 4; Phaedr. 3, 3, 6 et saep.—

(b) Fem., Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 99; id. Rud. 4, 4, 95 sq.

In the wild

hariolis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.6.5
hariolorum Cicero, De Divinatione 2.10.p1
hariolum Plautus, Casina 2.6
hariolus Plautus, Rudens 2.2
hariolum Cato, De agri cultura 5
hariolus Terence, Phormio 4.4

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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