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Nestor

Nestor · m

a son of Neleus, and king of Pylus, famous among the heroes before Troy for his wisdom and eloquence. He is said to…

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Epigrammata 11 · 1.95/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nestor — Lewis & Short

Nestor, ŏris (Gr. m., = *ne/stwr,

acc. Nestora, Hor. C. 1, 15, 22),

I a son of Neleus, and king of Pylus, famous among the heroes before Troy for his wisdom and eloquence. He is said to have lived through three generations of men: ipsi Agamemnoni, regi regum, fuit honestum, habere aliquem in consiliis capiendis Nestorem, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 2; cf. id. Sen. 10, 31; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 7: licet eloquio fidum quoque Nestora vincat, Ov. M. 13, 63; Prop. 2, 10, 46 (3, 5, 30); cf. Hor. C. 2, 9, 13; Tib. 4, 1, 49.—Nestoris aetas, the age of Nestor, prov. for a long life, Mart. 2, 64, 3; cf. id. 7, 96, 7; 5, 58, 5 al.: vivat Pacuvius, quaeso, vel Nestora totum, i. e. a whole life of Nestor, Juv. 12, 128.—Hence,

II Nestŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of Nestor: senecta, Mart. 9, 30, 1; Stat. S. 1, 3, 110.

In the wild

Nestoris Martial, Epigrammata 2.64.3
Nestor Horace, Epistulae 1.2.11
Nestor Martial, Epigrammata 11.32.5
Nestoris Ovid, Epistulae 1.63
Nestore Martial, Epigrammata 7.96.7
Nestorem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.7

6 of 54 attestations shown.

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