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medicus

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Dion 3 · 20.22/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 6 · 16.47/10k
De Fato 8 · 16.14/10k
De Medicina 94 · 9.17/10k
Menaechmi 8 · 8.42/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 3 · 7.68/10k
De Constantia 3 · 5.68/10k
De Anima 13 · 5.47/10k
Divus Aurelianus 4 · 5.12/10k
Epistulae 5 · 5.05/10k
De Scorpiace 4 · 5.02/10k

Densest 12 of 110 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mĕdĭcus — Lewis & Short

mĕdĭcus, a, ummedeor,

I of or pertaining to healing, healing, curative, medical (as adj., poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Adj.: medicas adhibere manus ad vulnera, Verg. G. 3, 455: ars, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 12: potus, Nemes. Cyn. 222: vis, Plin. 36, 27, 69, § 202: salubritas, id. 5, 16, 15, § 72: usus, id. 22, 25, 81, § 163: digitus, the next to the little finger (cf. medicinalis), id. 30, 12, 34, § 108. —*

B Transf., magical: Marmaridae, medicum vulgus, ad quorum tactum mites jacuere cerastae, Sil. 3, 300.—

II Subst.:

A mĕdĭcus, i, m.

1 A medical man, physician, surgeon (class.): medicus nobilissimus atque optimus quaeritur, Cic. Clu. 21, 57: medicum arcessere, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 122: admovere aegro, Suet. Ner. 37: vulnerum, a surgeon, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 22: caeduntur tumidae medico ridente mariscae, Juv. 2, 13; cf.: medicus ait se obligasse crus fractum Aesculapio, Apollini autem bracchium, Plaut. Men. 5, 3, 9: MEDICVS CLINICVS, CHIRVRGVS, OCVLARIVS, Inscr. Orell. 2983: AVRICVLARIVS, ib. 4227: IVMENTARIVS, ib. 4229; cf.: medici pecorum, Varr. R. R. 2, 7 fin.: LEGIONIS, Inscr. Orell. 448; 4996: DVPLARIVS TRIREMIS, ib. 3640: instrumentum medici, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 62.—Prov.: medice, cura teipsum, Vulg. Luc. 4, 23.—

2 The finger next the little finger, Gr. da/ktulos i)atriko/s, Auct. Her. 3, 20, 33.—

B mĕdĭ-ca, ae, f., a female physician (post-class.), App. M. 5, p. 363 Oud.; Inscr. Orell. 4230 sq.; Inscr. Grut. 635, 9; 636, 1 sq.—Also, a midwife, Interpr. Paul. Sent. 2, 24, 8; Ambros. Ep. 5.—

C mĕdĭca, ōrum, n., medicinal herbs, Plin. 19, 5, 27, § 89.

2. Mēdĭcus — Lewis & Short

Mēdĭcus, a, um, v. Medi, II. B.

In the wild

medici Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.10.p1
medici Apuleius, Apologia 51
medici Tacitus, Annales 12.p68
medicorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p21
medicis Celsus, De Medicina 3.9
medici Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.5.6

6 of 639 attestations shown.

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