The corpus record — Latin

Maenius

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 3 · 5.23/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 6 · 4.07/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 5 · 3.39/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 3 · 1.87/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 2 · 1.55/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Ab urbe condita 20 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Maenĭus — Lewis & Short

Maenĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens: C. Maenius, consul A. U. C. 416, Liv. 8, 13, 1.—Hence,

A Maenĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Mænius, Mænian: Maenia lex, proposed by the people's tribune Mænius, A. U. C. 468, Cic. Brut. 14, 55.— Esp. freq., Maenĭa Cŏlumna, ae, f., a pillar in the Forum, at which thieves and refractory slaves were scourged, and to which bad debtors were summoned, a whipping-post, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 50; id. Sest. 58, 124.—

B Maenĭānum, i, n., a projecting gallery, balcony of a house (first made use of by a Mænius); commonly used in the plur.: Maeniana appellata sunt a Maenio censore, qui primus in Foro ultra columnas tigna projecit, quo ampliarentur superiora spectacula, Paul. ex Fest. p. 134 Müll.; Cic. Ac. 2, 22, 70; Suet. Calig. 18; Vitr. 5, 1, 2; Varro ap. Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Dig. 50, 16, 242; Cod. Just. 8, 10, 11. —In sing.: Maenianum conscendere, Val. Max. 9, 12, 7.

In the wild

Maenium Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.44.7
Maenius Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.43.8.4
Maenius Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.8.2
Maenia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.60.p1
Maenio Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.43.2
Maenium Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.20.4

6 of 50 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.