The corpus record — Latin

occiduus

occiduus · adj

Going down

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

occĭdŭus — Lewis & Short

occĭdŭus, a, um, adj.2. occĭdo, I..

I Lit.

A Going down, setting (poet. and in post-class. prose): sole jam fere occiduo, Gell. 19, 7, 2: occiduo sole, Ov. M. 1, 63: oriens occiduusque dies, id. F. 4, 832: nox, Calp. Ecl. 3, 82; Stat. Th. 3, 33: Phoebus, Ov. M. 14, 416.—

B Transf., western: ab occiduo sole, Ov. F. 5, 558: occiduae aquae, id. ib. 1, 314: occiduae primaeque domus, in the west and in the east, Stat. S. 1, 4, 73; id. Th. 1, 200: Mauri, Luc. 3, 294: montes, Val. Fl. 2, 621: hora, the evening hour, hour of sunset, Calp. Ecl. 5, 34.—As subst.: occiduus (sc. sol), the west, Isid. 5, 35, 8.—

II Trop.

A Sinking, failing: labitur occiduae per iter declive senectae, Ov. M. 15, 227.—

B Frail, perishable: exsortes animae carnis ab occiduo, Paul. Nol. Carm. 34, 306.

In the wild

occiduus Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.416
occiduis Statius, Silvae 5.2.55
occiduus Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.494
occiduam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.3.9
occiduum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.187
occiduo Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.88

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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