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Nomas

Nomas · comm

pastoral people that wander about with their flocks

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Where it lives

Punica 14 · 1.84/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Nŏmăs — Lewis & Short

Nŏmăs, ădis, comm., = *noma/s (pasturing flocks); in Nŏmădes,

plur.

I pastoral people that wander about with their flocks, Nomads, Plin. 5, 3, 2, § 22.—Hence,

II In partic., the (wandering) Numidians, Verg. A. 4, 320; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.—In sing. collect., a Numidian, Sil. 5, 194.—In fem.: Nomas versuta, a Numidian fortune-teller, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 37.—Hence,

B Transf.: Nŏmas, ădis, f., Numidia, Mart. 8, 55, 8; 9, 75, 8.

In the wild

Nomades Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.28.p3
Nomadum Silius Italicus, Punica 2.264
Nomasque Silius Italicus, Punica 6.705
Nomadum Silius Italicus, Punica 11.31
Nomades Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.17.p3
Nomades Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.30.p2

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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