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Memmius

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 13 · 7.08/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 3 · 6.68/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 3 · 4.41/10k
Jugurtha 7 · 3.3/10k
Divus Julius 3 · 3.08/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
De Rerum Natura 10 · 2.05/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Brutus 3 · 1.2/10k
Letters to Atticus 14 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Memmius — Lewis & Short

Memmius, a,

I name of a Roman gens. mox Italus Mnestheus, genus, a quo nomine Memmi, Verg. A. 5, 117. So C. Memmius, a public man, who, being adjudged guilty of ambitus, went into exile to Athens, to him Cicero addressed several letters, and to him Lucretius dedicated his poem, De Rerum Natura; cf. Lucr. 1, 42.—Hence,

A Memmĭădes, ae, m., one of the Memmian gens, a Memmiade, a Memmius, Lucr. 1, 26.—

B Memmĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Memmius: praedia, of C. Memmius, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 1.

In the wild

Memmius Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.43.5.10
Memmio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.23
Memmio Tacitus, Annales 14.p48
Memmium Cicero, In L. Catilinam 4.4
Memmius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.15
Memmio Suetonius, Divus Julius 23.1

6 of 92 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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