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Matius

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
Letters to Atticus 4 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

Mătĭus — Lewis & Short

Mătĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens. So, Cn. Matius, a poet and translator of the Iliad, Gell. 6, 6, 5; 9, 14, 14; Varr. L. L. 7, 5, § 96 Müll.; perh. the same with C. Matius, a friend of Cæsar and Cicero, Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 2; 7, 15; 11, 28; Plin. 12, 2, 6, § 13; Col. 12, 4, 2 al.—Hence,

II Mătĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Matius, Matian: mala, a kind of apple, Col. 5, 10, 19; 12, 47, 5; Suet. Dom. 21: poma, Front. de Fer. Als. 3; Minutal, Apic. 4, 3.

In the wild

Matio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.50.4
Matio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.12.1
Matios Tacitus, Annales 12.p61
Matium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.3
Mati Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.15.2
Matium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.29.p4

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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