The corpus record — Latin

nongenti

one of nine hundred inspectors of the ballot-boxes

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Where it lives

Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nongenti — Lewis & Short

nongenti (nōningenti,

Col. 5, 2, 7), ae, a,

I adj. card., nine hundred: ab uno ad nongenta ... a mille ad nongenta milia, Varr. R. R. 3, 49: Falcidius emerat HS. nongentis milibus, Cic. Fl. 37, 91.—

II In sing.: nongentus, i, m., one of nine hundred inspectors of the ballot-boxes: praeter hos etiamnum nongenti vocabantur ex omnibus electi ad custodiendas suffragiorum cistas ... cum alius se nongentum, alius selectum appellaret, Plin. 33, 1, 7, § 31.

In the wild

nongenta Ausonius, Epistularum 16.11
nongentis Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 91
nongenti Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.2.7
nongentis Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.14.1
nongentis Tertullian, De Anima 28
nongenti Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.2.7

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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