Oculis

Where it lives

• Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
• Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
• De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
• Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
• Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
• Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
• Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
• Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
• Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
• Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
• Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
• Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• óculi Plautus, Menaechmi 5.3
• oculís Plautus, Cistellaria 4.2
• óculi Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.6
• Oculi Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 49.10
• Oculum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.28
• óculi Plautus, Poenulus 3.3

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

• Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. oculis (scan pp. 293-294; entry #4597).