The corpus record — Latin

Maecius1

the name of a Roman

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

Where it lives

Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 3 · 2.32/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 1 · 0.66/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. Maecĭus — Lewis & Short

Maecĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens. So, Sp. Maecius Tarpa, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1; Hor. A. P. 387; id. S. 1, 10. 38 Orell. ad loc.

2. Maecĭus — Lewis & Short

Maecĭus (Mētĭus), i, m.,

I the name of a place in Latium: nec procul ab Lanuvio (ad Maecium is locus dicitur) castra oppugnare est adortus, Liv. 6, 2, 8 (dub.; Weissenb. ad Mecium).—Hence,

II Maecĭa, ae, f., a tribe, Liv. 8, 17, 11; 29, 37; Cic. Planc. 16, 38; id. Att. 4, 15, 9; Paul. ex Fest. p. 136 Müll.

In the wild

Maeci Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p7
Maecius Suetonius, Domitianus 20.1
Maecius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.1.1
Maecium Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.41.5
Maecius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p7
Maecio Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 2

6 of 17 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.