1. Mĭlo — Lewis & Short
Mĭlo and Mĭlon, ōnis, m., = *mi/lwn.
I A celebrated athlete of Crotona, Cic. Fat. 13, 30; id. Sen. 9, 27; 10, 33; Val. Max. 9, 12, 9 ext.; Vitr. 9 praef. § 2; Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83.—
II A king of Pisa, in Elis, Ov. Ib. 327.
The corpus record — Latin
Milo1
Milo1 · m
A celebrated athlete of Crotona
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pro T. Annio Milone 104 · 98.91/10k
- Letters to and from Quintus 17 · 9.26/10k
- De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
- Metamorphoses 28 · 5.25/10k
- Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
- Pro P. Sestio 8 · 4.77/10k
- In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
- Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 56 · 3.26/10k
- De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 2 · 2.66/10k
- De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
- Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Mĭlo — Lewis & Short
Mĭlo, ōnis, m.,
I a name assumed by T. Annius, as an admirer of Milo of Crotona, and the leader of a band of gladiators. He was the son of C. Papius Celsus and Annia, daughter of C. Annius, who adopted the grandson. He was tribune of the people with Clodius, B. C. 57, but afterwards killed the latter, and was defended by Cicero in an oration still extant (pro T. Annio Milone).—Hence, Mĭlōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to T. Annius Milo, Milonian: tempora, i. e. the time when Milo was indicted, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B, 2.—Subst.: Mĭlōnĭāna, ae (sc. oratio), the oration of Cicero for Milo, Cic. Or. 49, 165; Mart. Cap. 5, § 526.
In the wild
- Miloni Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 34
- Milo Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 87
- Milonem Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 70
- Milonem Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 48
- Milonis Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 67
- Miloni Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 40
6 of 290 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.