The corpus record — Latin

Maevius

Maevius · m

Roman proper names

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Maevĭus — Lewis & Short

Maevĭus, i, m., and Maevĭa, ae, f.,

I Roman proper names.

A Maevius.

1 A secretary of Verres, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 75, § 175. —

2 A wretched poet, contemporary with Virgil, Verg. E. 3, 90; Hor. Epod. 10, 2.—

B Maevia, a woman, Dig. 31, 4, 87.—Hence,

II Maevĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Mævius, Mævian: fundus, Dig. 34, 5, 1: hereditas, ib. 31, 1, 76 init.

In the wild

Maeuius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 p18
Maevius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.30.18.15
Maevius Tacitus, Historiae 1.24
Maeuius Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.8.8

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.