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Nigris

Nigris · m

a river in the interior of Africa

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Where it lives

Severus 8 · 19/10k
Pescennius Niger 4 · 17.57/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Nī^gris — Lewis & Short

Nī^gris, is (Nī^gir, Nī^-ger, m.,

Vitr. 8, 2, 6; Mart. Cap. 6, § 673),

I a river in the interior of Africa, now the Joliba or Niger, Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30; 8, 21, 32, § 77.— Hence, Nī^grītae, ārum, m., the people living near the Niger, Mel. 1, 4, 3; 3, 10, 4; Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 43.

In the wild

Nigri Tertullian, Apologeticum 35.9
Nigrique Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 8
Nigrior Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.658
Nigri Historia Augusta, Severus 8
Nigri Historia Augusta, Severus 10
Nigri Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 1

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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