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iaspis

iaspis · f

a green - colored precious stone

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭaspis — Lewis & Short

ĭaspis, ĭdis, f., = i)/aspis,

I a green - colored precious stone, jasper, Plin. 37, 8, 37, § 115; Mart. 5, 11, 1; 9, 60, 20: fulva, Verg. A. 4, 261.—As a term of endearment: vale (Maecenas), mel gentium, Cilniorum smaragde, iaspi figulorum, berylle Porsenae, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4, 12.—Hence,

In the wild

iaspidem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.11
iaspide Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.526
Iaspide Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.5.3
iaspis Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.860
iaspidi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.9.p2
iaspide Statius, Thebais 4.270

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. iaspis (scan p. 329; entry #5203).

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