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Novius

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Aulularia 3 · 4.34/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Bacchides 3 · 3.04/10k
Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nŏvĭus — Lewis & Short

Nŏvĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens.

A Masc.

1 Novius, a famous writer of Atellane plays, a contemporary of Pomponius, about A. U. C. 650-670: Novius probatissimus Atellanarum scriptor ait, etc., Macr. S. 1, 10, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255; 2, 69, 279; cf. Gell. 15, 13, 4; 17, 2, 8; Non. 81, 22 sq. et saep.—Hence, Nŏvĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Novius (the Atellane poet), Novian: oratiunculae, M. Aurel. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 2, 13 Mai.: fullones, Tert. Pall. 4; v. fullo, I.—

2 L. Novius, a tribune of the people and enemy of Clodius, Ascon. ad Cic. Mil. p. 47 Orell.—

3 Another Novius, Hor. S. 1, 6, 40 (perh. a fictitious name, i. q. Newcomer, Upstart). —

4 A fortune-hunter, Juv. 12, 111.—

B Fem.: Nŏvĭa, ae, the wife of Oppianicus, Cic. Clu. 9, 27.

In the wild

6 of 74 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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