The corpus record — Latin

Jugurtha

Jugurtha · m

the nephew and successor of Micipsa, king of Numidia, conquered by Marius in the war with the Romans

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Where it lives

Jugurtha 165 · 77.74/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 1 · 1.5/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Jŭgurtha — Lewis & Short

Jŭgurtha, ae, m.,

I the nephew and successor of Micipsa, king of Numidia, conquered by Marius in the war with the Romans; v. Sall. J. 5 sqq.; Flor. 3, 1.—Hence,

II Jŭgurthīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Jugurtha, Jugurthan: conjuratio, Cic. N. D. 3, 30: bellum, Hor. Epod. 9, 23: triumphus, Ov. P. 4, 3, 45.

In the wild

Iugurthae Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.229
Iugurthae Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.11.p3
Iugurthae Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.371
Iugurtha Sallust, Jugurtha 73.p2
Iugurtham Sallust, Jugurtha 32.p1
Iugurtham Sallust, Jugurtha 31.p3

6 of 194 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.