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Lucretius

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Ab urbe condita 82 · 1.59/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
De Republica 3 · 1.38/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 3 · 1.14/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Lū^crētĭus — Lewis & Short

Lū^crētĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens.

A Masc.

1 The poet T. Lucretius Carus, an Epicurean in philosophy, author of the poem De rerum natura, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 4; Quint. 10, 1, 87; 12, 11, 27; Ov. Am. 1, 15, 23; Stat. S. 2, 7, 76.—

2 Sp. Lucretius Tricipitinus, father of Lucretia, consul A. U. C. 245, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 10; id. Rep. 2, 31, 55; Liv. 1, 59, 8.—

3 Q. Lucretius Vespillo, an orator, Cic. Brut. 48, 178.—

4 Another Lucretius Vespillo, an adherent of Pompey, Caes. B. C. 3, 7.—

B Fem.

1 Lū^crētĭa, daughter of Sp. Lucretius Tricipitinus, and wife of Collatinus, who, when dishonored by Sex. Tarquinius, put herself to death, and thus became the immediate cause of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; id. Fin. 2, 20, 66; Liv. 1, 58; Ov. F. 2, 685; Juv. 10, 293.—

2 Transf., for a chaste woman: Lucretia toto Sis licet usque die, Laida nocte volo, Mart. 11, 104, 21; Petr. 9, 5.

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