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Messalla

Messalla · m

a Roman surname in the

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 12 · 12.9/10k
Elegiae 10 · 8.1/10k
Suasoriae 8 · 7.79/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2 · 7.53/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 9 · 4.9/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 3 · 3.15/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Messalla — Lewis & Short

Messalla (less correctly Messāla), ae, m.,

I a Roman surname in the gens Valeria: Corvinus primus Messanam vicit, et pri mus ex familiā Valeriorum, urbis captae in se translato nomine, Messana appellatus est: paulatimque vulgo permutante litteras, Messalla dictus, Sen. Vit. Beat. 13. The most celebrated is the orator M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, in the time of Cicero and Augustus, Cic. Att. 15, 17, 2; 16, 16, A, 5; Tib. 4, 1, 1; Hor. A. P. 371; Sen. Contr. 2, 12, 8.—In plur., Ov. P. 4, 16, 43.

Where it came from

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

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