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mathematicus

mathematicus · adj

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Where it lives

Vitellius 3 · 12.46/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 2 · 11.98/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 2 · 8.64/10k
Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 1 · 7.28/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 2 · 6.88/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De idolatria 4 · 5.8/10k
Tiberius 4 · 4.4/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măthēmătĭcus — Lewis & Short

măthēmătĭcus, a, um, adj., = maqhmatiko/s,

I of or belonging to mathematics, mathematical (class.).

I Adj.: mathematica nota, Vitr. 1, 1: artes, Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 2: cogitatio, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 2: disciplinae, i. e. geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music, geography, optics, Gell. 1, 9, 6.—

II Subst.

A Măthēmătĭcus, i, m.

1 A mathematician, Cic. de Or 1, 3, 10; id. Ac. 2, 36, 116; id. Tusc. 1, 2, 5; Sen. Ep. 88, 26.—

2 An astrologer (post-Aug.): mathematici, genus hominum potentibus infidum, sperantibus fallax, quod in civitate nostra et vetabitur semper et retinebitur, Tac. H. 1, 22: nota mathematicis genesis tua, Juv. 14, 248; Tert. Apol. 43: qui de salute principis ... mathematicos consulit, cum eo qui responderit, capite punitur, Paul. Sent. 5, 21, 3.—

B Măthēmătĭca, ae, f.

1 Mathematics, Sen. Ep. 88, 23; v. l. mă-thēmătĭcē ( = maqhmatikh/, sc. te/xnh).—

2 Astrology: addictus mathematicae, persuasionisque plenus, cuncta fato agi, Suet. Tib. 69.

In the wild

mathematicus Cicero, Lucullus 106
mathematicus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.6
mathematicus Petronius, Satyricon 76
mathematicis Tertullian, De idolatria 9
mathematicis Suetonius, Nero 40.2.p2
mathematici Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.15.p1

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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