The corpus record — Latin

Orgia

Orgia · n

a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus

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

Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Thebais 6 · 0.96/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Orgĭa — Lewis & Short

Orgĭa, ōrum, n., = *)/orgia,

I a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries, the feast or orgies of Bacchus.

I Lit., Verg. A. 4, 303; Ov. M. 11, 93; Verg. G. 4, 521.—

B Transf., in gen., secret frantic revels, orgies, Juv. 2, 91; Stat. S. 5, 5, 4.—

II Trop.: Itala per Graios Orgia ferre choros, the mysteries of love in the Latin tongue, Prop. 4, 1, 4: naturae, secrets, mysteries, Col. 10, 217.

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.