The corpus record — Latin

Macae1

Macae1 · m

a people in the north-eastern part of Arabia Felix

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. Macae — Lewis & Short

Macae, ārum, m.,

I a people in the north-eastern part of Arabia Felix, Prisc. Peri. 887.

2. Macae — Lewis & Short

Macae, ārum, m., = oi( *ma/kai (Herod. 4, 175),

I a people of Africa in the regio Syrtica, Mela, 3, 8, 6; Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 34; Sil. 3, 275; 15, 670.—Sing.: Maces, Sil. 9, 222. —Acc. Macen, Sil. 2, 60.

In the wild

Macae Silius Italicus, Punica 9.11
Macae Silius Italicus, Punica 15.670
Macae Silius Italicus, Punica 3.275
Macas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p3
Macae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.5
Macae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.28.p3

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.