The corpus record — Latin

Hiero

Hiero · m

Ruler of Syracuse

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

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 16s 2 · 250/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 17 · 12.02/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 6 · 4.14/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 4 · 2.72/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 4 · 2.33/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 3 · 1.93/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 3 · 1.77/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
In C. Verrem 8 · 0.8/10k
Ab urbe condita 41 · 0.79/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hĭĕro — Lewis & Short

Hĭĕro, ōnis, m., = *(ie/rwn.

I Ruler of Syracuse, a friend of the poet Simonides, Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60; 3, 34, 83.—

II A son of Hierocles, and ruler of Syracuse in the latter half of the third century B.C., a friend of the Romans, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 59; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 12, § 49; Liv. 21, 49; 22, 37; 24, 4; 26, 40; Just. 23, 4, 1; Sil. 14, 80.—Deriv. Hĭĕrōnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Hiero: lex frumontaria, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 32 sq.; 2, 2, 60, § 147; 2, 3, 6, § 14 sq.

In the wild

Hiero Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p50
Hieronis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p34
Hieronis Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.5.7
Hiero Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.114.17
Hieronis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 p30
Hierone Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.17.p56

6 of 119 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.