1. narcissus — Lewis & Short
narcissus, i, m., = na/rkissos,
I the narcissus, Plin. 21, 5, 12, § 25; 21, 19, 75, § 128; Verg. E. 5, 38; id. G. 4, 123; 160.
The corpus record — Latin
narcissus1
narcissus1 · m
the narcissus
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
- Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
- Apocolocyntosis 3 · 11.07/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
- Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
- Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
- Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
- Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
- Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Narcissus — Lewis & Short
Narcissus, i, m.,
I Narcissus, the son of Cephisus and the nymph Liriope. He was exceedingly beautiful, and fell so violently in love with himself on beholding his image in a fountain, that he wasted away with desire, until he was changed into the flower of the same name, Ov. M. 3, 407 sq. —
II Narcissus, a freedman of Claudius, by whose orders Messalina was put to death, Tac. A. 11, 29 sqq.; Juv. 14, 329.
In the wild
- Narcisse Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 101.1
- narcissus Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 408
- Narcissus Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.10
- narcissi Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.63
- narcisso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.1.p2
- Narcissum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.10.p1
6 of 62 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.