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Mentor

Mentor · m

The famous friend of Odysseus

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Where it lives

Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Mentor — Lewis & Short

Mentor, ŏris, m., = *me/ntwr.

I The famous friend of Odysseus, Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2. —

II A celebrated artist in embossed work in metal, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 38; Plin. 33, 12, 53, § 147.—

B Poet. transf., a Mentor-cup, a skilfully wrought drinking-vessel: rarae sine Mentore mensae, Juv. 8, 104: Mentora frangere, Mart. 11, 11, 5.— Hence, Mentŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mentor the artist, Mentorean: opus, Prop. 1, 14, 2: labores, Mart. 4, 39, 5.

In the wild

Mentoris Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.13.14
Mentoris Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.38
Mentoris Martial, Epigrammata 8.50.2
Mentorem Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.291
Mentore Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.104
Mentor Martial, Epigrammata 14.93.2

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Where it came from

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