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orchestra

orchestra · f

The place where the Senate sat

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 2 · 15.16/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

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

What it meant

orchēstra — Lewis & Short

orchēstra, ae, f., = o)rxh/stra.

I The place where the Senate sat in the theatre, the orchestra: in orchestrā senatorum sunt sedibus loca destinata, Vitr. 5, 6; Juv. 7, 47; Suet. Caes. 39; id. Aug. 35; 44; id. Claud. 21 et saep.—

B Transf., the Senate (poet.): similesque videbis Orchestram et populum, Juv. 3, 178.—

II Another place on the stage, acc. to Fest. p. 181 b; cf. Müll. ad h. l.

In the wild

orchestra Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.71
orchestrae Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.6.6
orchestrae Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.7.1
orchestra Suetonius, Tiberius 66.1
orchestrae Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.6.6
orchestram Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.178

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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