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mimicus

mimicus · adj

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mīmĭcus — Lewis & Short

mīmĭcus, a, um, adj., = mimiko/s,

I of or belonging to mimes, mimic, farcical (class.).

I Lit.: ne aut scurrilis jocus sit, aut mimicus, farcical, extravagant, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 239; Quint. 6, 1, 47 Spald.—

II Trop.: res mimicae et ineptae, Plin. Ep. 7, 29, 3: mors, mimic, feigned, Petr. 94 fin.—Hence, adv.: mīmĭcē, like a mime, farcically, Cat. 42, 8; Tert. Apol. 46; Sen. Contr. 2, 12, 5.

In the wild

mimicam Martial, Epigrammata 8.pr.11
mimicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.17.p3
mimica Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.23.12
mimico Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.24.1
mimico Petronius, Satyricon 19
mimica Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.1.47

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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