The corpus record — Latin

Navius

Navius · m

a Roman proper name

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 4 · 1.45/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 2 · 1.18/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

Navĭus — Lewis & Short

Navĭus, ii, m.,

I a Roman proper name. Especially celebrated is Attus Navius, an augur under Tarquinius Priscus, who cut a stone in two with a razor, Liv. 1, 36; Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 9; id. Div. 1, 17, 31 sq.; Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 77.—Hence, Navĭus, a, um, adj., Navian: Navia ficus, a fig-tree in the Comitium at Rome, on the spot where Navius cut the stone in two with a razor. As long as it flourished Roman liberty was to endure, Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 77; Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.

In the wild

Nauius Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.3.3
Navia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.20
Navio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.18.p3
Navium Cicero, De Divinatione 2.80
Navio Cicero, De Divinatione 1.32
Navium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.5

6 of 19 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.