The corpus record — Latin

melicus

melicus · adj

musical, tuneful, melodious

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. mĕlĭcus — Lewis & Short

mĕlĭcus, a, um, adj., = meliko/s,

I musical, tuneful, melodious: sonores, Lucr. 5, 334.—

II In partic., lyric, lyrical: poëma, Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 1, 1.—

B Subst.:

1 mĕlĭcus, i, m., a lyric poet: Simonides melicus, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 89; 7, 56, 57, § 192.—

2 mĕlĭca, ae, f., a lyric poem, ode, Petr. 64.

2. Mēlĭcus — Lewis & Short

Mēlĭcus, a, um, adj., in vulg. lang. for Medicus,

I Median: gallinae, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 19; Col. 8, 2, 4; Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 48.

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