mĕgistānes — Lewis & Short
mĕgistānes, um, m., = megista=nes
I the grandees of a kingdom, the magnates who were in the king's suite, Sen. Ep. 21, 4; Tac. A. 15, 27; Suet. Calig. 5.
The corpus record — Latin
megistanes
megistanes · m
the grandees
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Where it lives
- C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- megistanum Suetonius, C. Caligula 5.1
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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