The corpus record — Latin

Ligarius

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Ligario 23 · 70.12/10k
Institutio Oratoria 32 · 1.86/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Lĭgārĭus — Lewis & Short

Lĭgārĭus, a,

I name of a Roman gens. So, Q. Ligarius, whom Cicero defended in an oration still extant, Quint. 11, 1, 80; Auct. B. Afr. 64, 1; Cic. Lig. 1, 1.—Hence,

II Lĭgārĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ligarius, Ligarian: oratio Ligariana, Cic. Att. 13, 44, 3; or absol.: Lĭ-gārĭāna, ae, f., Cicero's oration for Ligarius, Cic. Att. 13, 19, 2.—Also plur.: Lĭ-gārĭāna, ōrum, n., the same, Cic. Att. 13, 12, 2.

In the wild

Ligario Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.28
Ligario Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario 9
Ligarius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario 4
Ligario Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.4.17
Ligario Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.108
Ligario Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.108

6 of 61 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.