The corpus record — Latin

Olbia

Olbia · f

the name of several cities

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Olbĭa — Lewis & Short

Olbĭa, ae, f., = *)olbi/a,

I the name of several cities.

I A city in Pamphylia, Plin. 5, 27, 26, § 96.—

II A city in Bithynia, afterwards called Nicaea, now Izmid, Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 148.—Hence,

B Olbĭānus, a, um, adj.: sinus, now Golfo d' Izmid, Mela, 1, 19, 4.—

III A city in Gallia Narbonensis, Mela, 2, 5.—

IV A city in Sardinia, now Terranova, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 7; 2, 8, 1; Flor. 2, 2, 6; Val. Max. 5, 1, 2.—Hence, Olbĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Olbia, Olbian: epistula. from Olbia, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 7: ager, the territory of Olbia, Liv. 27, 6.

In the wild

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.