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nisus

Part., from nitor

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 8 · 23.06/10k
De Baptismo 4 · 9.37/10k
Heautontimorumenos 8 · 7.28/10k
Andria 7 · 7.11/10k
Adelphi 7 · 7.07/10k
De Oratione 3 · 6.68/10k
Eunuchus 7 · 6.46/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 6 · 5.71/10k
Octavius 6 · 5.17/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 2 · 5.12/10k
Persa 4 · 5.09/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k

Densest 12 of 107 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. nīsus — Lewis & Short

nīsus, a, um,

Part., from nitor.

2. nīsus — Lewis & Short

nīsus, ūs, m.nitor,

I a pressing or resting upon or against, a pressure; a striving, exertion, labor, effort (mostly poet.; nixus in good prose, v. h. v.): pedetentim et sedato nisu, a tread, step, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 48: pinnarum nisus inanis, a flight, Lucr. 6, 834; so, insolitos docuere nisus, Hor. C. 4, 4, 8: hic dea se primum rapido pulcherrima nisu Sistit, Verg. A. 11, 852: stat gravis Entellus nisuque immotus eodem, etc., in the same posture, id. ib. 5, 437: hunc stirps Oceani maturis nisibus Aethra Edidit, pains, throes, labor of parturition (v. 2. nixus), Ov. F. 5, 171.—In prose: tamquam nisus evomentis adjuvaret, retchings, Tac. A. 12, 67: uti prospectus nisusque per saxa facilius foret, Sall. J. 94, 1 Dietsch: quae dubia nisu videbantur, id. ib. 94, 2 Dietsch: non pervenit nisu sed impetu, Quint. 8, 4, 9; 1, 12, 10.

3. Nīsus — Lewis & Short

Nīsus, i, m., = *ni=sos

I A king of Megara, father of Scylla, who, in order to gain the love of Minos, cut off her father's purple hair, on which the safety of his kingdom depended, whereupon Nisus was changed into a sparrow-hawk, and Scylla into the bird ciris, Verg. G. 1, 404 sq.; Ov. M. 8, 8 sqq.; v. Scylla.—

B Hence,

1 Nī-saeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Nisus, Nisæan: et vos Nisaei, naufraga monstra, canes, i. e. Scylla, the daughter of Phorcus, Ov. F. 4, 500; cf. id. A. A. 1, 331.—

2 Nīsēis, ĭdis, f., the daughter of Nisus, Scylla (q. v.), confounded with the daughter of Phorcus: praeterita cautus Niseide navita gaudet, Ov. R. Am. 737.—

3 Nī-sēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Nisus, Nisæan: per mare caeruleum trahitur Niseia virgo, Verg. Cir. 390; Ov. M. 8, 35.—

4 Nīsĭas, ădis, f., Nisæan, i. e. Megarian: Nisiades matres Nisiadesque nurus, of Megaris, in Sicily (a colony of Megara, in Greece), Ov. H. 15, 54.—

II Son of Hyrtacus and friend of Euryalus, Verg. A. 5, 294; 9, 176 sq.

In the wild

nisu Silius Italicus, Punica 16.341
Nisi Plautus, Persa 4.4
Nisi Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 14
Nisi Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.29.7
Nisi Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 57
Nisi Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.22.p2

6 of 374 attestations shown.

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