The corpus record — Latin

Lacaena

Lacaena · f

Spartan, Lacedæmonian

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Lăcaena — Lewis & Short

Lăcaena, ae, f., = *la/kaina,

I Spartan, Lacedæmonian; and subst., a Lacedæmonian or Spartan woman.

I Adj. (poet.): apud Lacaenas virgines, quibus magis palaestra studio est, etc., Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 36: virginibus bacchata Lacaenis Taygeta, Verg. G. 2, 487: Tyndaris, id. A. 2, 601: canes, Claud. Laud. Stil. 3, 300.—

II Subst., a Spartan woman: qualis tandem Lacaena, quae, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102; so of Helen, Verg. A. 2, 601; 6, 511; of Clytemnestra, Val. Fl. 7, 150; of Leda, Mart. 9, 103, 2.

In the wild

Lacaenae Horace, Carmina 3.3
Lacaena Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 44.2
Lacaenae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.150
Lacaena Propertius, Elegiae 2.15.13
Lacaenas Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.630
Lacaenas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.36

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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