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Hyginus

Hyginus · m

surname of two Roman authors

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 15 · 1.34/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 10 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k

What it meant

Hygīnus — Lewis & Short

Hygīnus (Higinus, i, m.,

Gell. 1, 14, 1; 1, 21, 2; 5, 8, 1 et saep.),

I surname of two Roman authors.

I C. Julius Hyginus, author of a collection of fables and of a treatise on astronomy, Suet. Gramm. 20; Gell. 1, 14.—

II The author of a treatise De limitibus constituendis.

In the wild

Hygino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p128
Hygino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.6.p49
Hygino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.18.p87
Hyginus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.21.a
Hygino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.17.p54
Hygino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.4.p33

6 of 47 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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