The corpus record — Latin

Ladas

Ladas · m

a runner of Alexander the Great, whose name became a proverb for swiftness

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k

What it meant

Lādas — Lewis & Short

Lādas, ae, m., = *la/das,

I a runner of Alexander the Great, whose name became a proverb for swiftness, Sol. 1, § 96; Mart. 10, 100, 5; 2, 86, 8; Cat. 55, 25; Auct. Her. 4, 3, 4; Sen. Ep. 85, 4: pauper locupletem optare podagram Ne dubitet Ladas, Juv. 13, 97.

In the wild

Ladan Martial, Epigrammata 2.86.8
Ladae Martial, Epigrammata 10.100.5

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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