The corpus record — Latin

Pācĭdĭānus

Pācĭdĭānus · m

a famous gladiator

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What it meant

Pācĭdĭānus — Lewis & Short

Pācĭdĭānus, i, m.,

I a famous gladiator, whose combat with Æserninus, the Samnite, mentioned by Lucilius, became proverbial, Lucil. ap. Non. 393, 30; Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 17; id. Tusc. 4, 21, 48; id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 2; Hor. S. 2, 7, 97 (al. Placidianus).

Where it came from

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

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.