The corpus record — Latin

Homerus

Homerus · m

the Greek poet Homer

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 3 · 9.71/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 2 · 6.42/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Noctes Atticae 57 · 5.09/10k
De Senectute 4 · 4.84/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
De Divinatione 10 · 3.64/10k

Densest 12 of 80 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hŏmērus — Lewis & Short

Hŏmērus, i, m., = *(/omhros,

I the Greek poet Homer, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3; 1, 32, 79; id. Rep. 2, 10; id. Brut. 10, 40; id. Arch. 8, 19; id. de Or. 3, 34, 137; Vell. 1, 5, 2; Quint. 10, 1, 47 sq.; Hor. A. P. 359 al.—

II Derivv.

A Hŏmērĭcus, a, um, adj., = *(omhriko/s, of or belonging to Homer, Homeric: versus, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 52; cf. dispositio, Quint. 5, 12, 14: facultas eloquendi, id. 10, 1, 81: more, id. 7, 10, 11: Ajax, Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82; cf. Agamemno, id. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: senex, i. e. Nestor, Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 3: oculi, i. e. blind, Tert. Pall. 2.—*

B Hŏmērĭă-cus, a, um, adj., the same: notae, Auct. Priap. 69.—*

C Hŏmērĭus, a, um, adj., the same: scyphi, quos Homerios a caelatura carminum Homeri vocabat, Suet. Ner. 47.—

D Hŏmērista, ae, m., = *(omhristh/s, a Homeric rhapsodist, Petr. 29; Diom. p. 481 P.—*

E Hŏmērŏnĭdes, ae, m., an imitator of Homer, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 4.

In the wild

Homerum Cicero, Lucullus 88
Homerus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.6.p1
Homero Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.11.26
Homeri Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1.12
Homeri Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.4.3
Homerum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.79.p2

6 of 357 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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