Harpăgus — Lewis & Short
Harpăgusi, m.,
I a Median nobleman, to whom Astyages committed his grandson Cyrus to be destroyed, but by whom he was preserved alive, Just. 1, 4 sq.; Sen. de Ira, 3, 15, 1.
The corpus record — Latin
Harpagus
Harpagus · m
a Median nobleman
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
- De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Harpagus Seneca, De Ira 3.15.1
- Harpage Plautus, Pseudolus 2.2
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.