The corpus record — Latin

Hister

Hister · m

the lower part of the Danube

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Ex Ponto 8 · 3.86/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Tristia 4 · 1.75/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Hister — Lewis & Short

Hister, tri (less correctly Ister), m., = *)/istros,

I the lower part of the Danube (the upper part, Danubius).

I Prop.

A In gen.: Ponticum simul et Hadriaticum mare et Histrum amnem et Alpes conspici posse, Liv. 40, 21: turbidus et torquens flaventes Hister arenas, Verg. G. 3, 350: stat vetus urbs, ripae vicina binominis Histri, Ov. P. 1, 8, 11.—

B Esp.: Histro fallacior, an epithet applied by Tertullian to Marcion; because the river, on account of its strong eddies and many mouths, was dangerous to the navigator, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 1.—

II Meton., one who dwells on the Danube: collo triumphati proculcat Honorius Histri, Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 648: aut tibi captivo famulus mittetur ab Histro, Mart. 7, 79, 11.

2. hister — Lewis & Short

hister, v. histrio

I init.

In the wild

Hister Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.10.22
hister Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.4.4
Hister Ovid, Ibis 136
Hister Seneca, Medea 1
Hister Ovid, Tristia 2.1.203
Hister Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.569

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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