The corpus record — Latin

Marathon

Marathon · f

a town

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Where it lives

Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Mărăthon — Lewis & Short

Mărăthon, ōnis, f. (m., *maraqw/n,

Mel. 2, 3, 6), =

I a town (now Vrana) on the eastern coast of Attica, famed for the death of Icarus, the victory of Theseus over the Marathonian bull, and that of Miltiades over the Persians, Mel. 2, 3, 6; Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Milt. 4, 2; Just. 2, 15, 18: proelium apud Marathona, Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 57; Ov. M. 7, 433.—Hence,

A Mărătho-nĭus, a, um, adj., = *maraqw/nios, of or belonging to Marathon, Marathonian: an etiam Theseus Marathonii tauri cornua comprehendit iratus? Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 50: pugna, id. Att. 9, 10, 3.—

2 Transf., Athenian: Marathonia virgo, i. e. Erigone, Stat. S. 5, 3, 74: hostis, Sil. 14, 650; Just. 4, 4; 5.—

B Mărăthōnis, ĭdis, adj. f., = *maraqwni/s, Marathonian: quercum Marathonida Theseus extulit, i. e. the spear with which he fought against the Marathonian bull, Stat. Th. 12, 730: Marathonide silvā, id. ib. 11, 644.

In the wild

Marathonem Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 6.3
Marathon Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.3e.3.p7
Marathone Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.24
Marathone Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.238
Marathon Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.39
Marathon Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.14e.1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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