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Herodotus

Herodotus · m

celebrated as the earliest Greek historian

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Where it lives

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
De Anima 4 · 1.68/10k
Noctes Atticae 16 · 1.43/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
In C. Verrem 5 · 0.5/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 16 · 0.4/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hērŏdŏtus — Lewis & Short

Hērŏdŏtus, i, m., = *(hro/dotos,

I celebrated as the earliest Greek historian, born at Halicarnassus, 484 B. C.: quamquam et apud Herodotum, patrem historiae et apud Theopompum sunt innumerabiles fabulae, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 5; id. de Or. 2, 13, 55; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 73; 101; 9, 4, 16; 18.

In the wild

Herodotus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.73
Herodotus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.19.1
Herodoto Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.12.7
Herodotus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.23.2
Herodotus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.10.11
Herodoto Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.18

6 of 64 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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