The corpus record — Latin

Ossa

Ossa · f

a high mountain in Thessaly

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
Pharsalia 3 · 0.59/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ossa — Lewis & Short

Ossa, ae, f. (m., *)/ossa,

Ov. M. 1, 155), =

I a high mountain in Thessaly, now Kissovo, Mel. 2, 3, 2; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30: ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam, Verg. G. 1, 281: Ossan, Ov. F. 1, 307.—Hence, Ossaeus, a, um, adj., Ossean: saxa, Verg. Cir. 33: rupes, Luc. 6, 334: media, Stat. Th. 2, 82: Ossaei bimembres, i. e. the Centaurs who dwell about Ossa, id. ib. 12, 554.

In the wild

Ossae Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.54.10
Ossaque Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p2
Ossam Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.76
Ossae Statius, Thebais 3.319
Ossam Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Ossae Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 p58

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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