The corpus record — Latin

Nar

Nar · m

a river of Italy, which rises in the Apennines, flows through a part of the Sabine territory and Umbria, and joins the…

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. Nār — Lewis & Short

Nār, Nāris, m., = *na/r,

I a river of Italy, which rises in the Apennines, flows through a part of the Sabine territory and Umbria, and joins the Tiber, now Nera: Nar amnis exhaurit illos (Velinos lacus) sulphureis aquis, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 109; cf.: Solporeas posuit spiramina Naris ad undas, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 691 P. (Ann. v. 265 Vahl.); and: audiit amnis Sulfureā Nar albus aquā fontesque Velini, Verg. A. 7, 517; cf. Aus. Idyll. 12 de deis; Ov. M. 14, 330: quod Lacus Velinus in Narem defluit, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5: Nare ac mox Tiberi devectus, Tac. A. 3, 9.

2. Nar — Lewis & Short

Nar, Nartis; only Nartes, ium, m.,

plur.,

I dwellers on the banks of the Nar: Interamnates, cognomine Nartes, Plin. 3, 14, 19, § 113; gen.: Interamnatium Nartium, Inscr. Grut. 407, 1.

3. Nar — Lewis & Short

Nar, Nartis, m.,

I a river of Illyria, Mela, 2, 3, 13.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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