The corpus record — Latin

lotos

lotos · f

The name of several plants

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Naturalis Historia 32 · 0.81/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lōtos — Lewis & Short

lōtos and lōtus, i, f. (m., lwto/s.

Mart. 8, 51, 14), =

I The name of several plants.

A The Egyptian water-lily, Plin. 13, 17, 32, § 104.—

B A tree on the northern coast of Africa, the food of the Lotophagi, the lotustree, edible nettle-tree, contrasted with the former of the same name, Plin. 13, 17, 32, § 101 sqq.; Verg. G. 2, 84; id. Cul. 123.—

C A tree of Italy, the Italian persimmon, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 121; 16, 44, 85, § 235 sq.—

D The date-plum (faba Graeca), Plin. 24, 2, 2, § 6.—

II Transf.

A The fruit of the lotus, Prop. 3, 12, 27; Ov. P. 4, 10, 18; Sil. 3, 311.—

B A flute (because made of lotus-wood): horrendo lotos adunca sono, Ov. F. 4, 190; Sil. 11, 432.

Where it came from

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