1. moenĭa — Lewis & Short
defensive walls, ramparts, bulwarks, city walls
The corpus record — Latin
moenia
moenia
defensive walls, ramparts, bulwarks, city walls
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Ordo Urbium Nobilium 4 · 38.24/10k
- Themistocles 3 · 17.52/10k
- Aeneid 92 · 14.52/10k
- Punica 107 · 14.03/10k
- Mosella 4 · 12.3/10k
- Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
- Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 5 · 12.02/10k
- de bello Gildonico 3 · 9.48/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
- Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
- Pharsalia 46 · 9.03/10k
- Epistularum 8 · 8.8/10k
Densest 12 of 125 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. moenĭa — Lewis & Short
v. h. v
Attestations
- moenia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.18
- moenibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.7
- moenium Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.11.11
- moenium Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.2
- moenibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.14
- moenia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.2.5
6 of 1,209 attestations shown.
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