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Neoptolemus

Neoptolemus · m

The son of Achilles, also called Pyrrhus

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Where it lives

Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nĕoptŏlĕmus — Lewis & Short

Nĕoptŏlĕmus, i, m., = *neopto/lemos.

I The son of Achilles, also called Pyrrhus, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 257; id. Lael. 20, 75; Verg. A. 2, 263.—Hence,

B The name of a tragedy of Ennius, the hero of which was Neoptolemus, Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; id. Tusc. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 2, 37, 156; Gell. 5, 15, 9; 5, 16, 5; App. Mag. p. 281 (Vahl. and Rib. put these passages under Incerti Nominis Reliquiae). —

II One of Alexander's generals, who was defeated by Eumenes, Nep. Eum. 4, 1.

In the wild

Neoptolemus Vergil, Aeneid 2.263
Neoptolemi Vergil, Aeneid 11.264
Neoptolemum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.15.9
Neoptolemi Ovid, Epistulae 8.115
Neoptolemus Cicero, De Republica 1.30.p2
Neoptolemus Tertullian, De Anima 46

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Where it came from

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