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Mantua

Mantua · f

a city of

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Where it lives

Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Mantŭa — Lewis & Short

Mantŭa, ae, f.,

I a city of Gallia Transpadana, on the Mincius, in whose vicinity was Andes, the birthplace of Virgil, still called Mantua, Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 130; Liv. 24, 10, 7; Verg. A. 10, 200: Mantua Vergilio gaudet, Ov. Am. 3, 15, 7; Sil. 8, 595.— Hence,

II Mantŭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mantua or to Virgil, Mantuan, Virgilian: fama, Stat. S. 4, 7, 26: Maro, Min. Fel. Octav. 19: vates, Mart. Cap. 2, § 212; also called Mantuanus Homerus, Macr. S. 1, 16; and Mantuanus, id. ib. 5, 1: carmina, Virgil's poems, Sol. 46.

In the wild

Mantua Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.19.p2
Mantua Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.184
Mantua Statius, Silvae 4.2.9
Mantua Vergil, Georgicon 2.198
Mantua Statius, Silvae 2.7.35
Mantua Silius Italicus, Punica 8.593

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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