The corpus record — Latin

Maelius

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

Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 11 · 6.55/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 3 · 2.23/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
Ab urbe condita 17 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Maelĭus — Lewis & Short

Maelĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens, of which the most celebrated member is Sp. Maelius, who, under suspicion of aiming at kingly power, was slain, at the command of the dictator L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, by the magister equitum C. Servilius Ahala, Liv. 4, 13 sq.; Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3; id. Sen. 16, 56; id. Phil. 2, 44, 114; cf. Aequimaelium.—Hence,

II Maelĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mælius, Mælian: caedes, i. e. the murder of Sp. Maelius, Liv. 4, 16.—Subst.: Maelĭāni, ōrum, m., the partisans of Mælius, Mælians, Liv. 4, 14.

In the wild

Maelio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p21
Maelius Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.12.10
Maelius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.13.24
Maelium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.3.p2
Maelio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.7.20
Maelium Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.15.6

6 of 51 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.