The corpus record — Latin

Pacuvius

Pacuvius · m

the name of a Roman

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

Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 5 · 3.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Noctes Atticae 17 · 1.52/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5 · 1/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pācŭvĭus — Lewis & Short

Pācŭvĭus (Pācŭus), i, m.,

I the name of a Roman gens. So esp. Pacuvius, a celebrated Roman poet, a native of Brundisium, nephew of Ennius, and contemporary of P. Scipio Africanus, Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 1, 1; id. Brut. 64, 229; id. Fin. 1, 2, 4; id. Or. 11, 36; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 56; Quint. 10, 1, 97. He is also said to have distinguished himself as a painter, Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 19.—Sync. form: Pacui discipulus dicor, porro is fuit Enni, Enniu' musarum, Varr. ap. Non. 88, 4; Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 19 Jan.—Hence,

II Pā-cŭvĭānus, a, um, adj., Pacuvian: physicus, Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131: testudo, described by Pacuvius, Tert. Pall. 3: ex quibus est Pacuvianum illud: nam si qui, etc., that Pacuvian verse, Gell. 14, 1, 34.

In the wild

Pacuvius Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.30.3
Pacuvius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p363
Pacuvi Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 24.p1
Pacuvio Juvenal, Saturae 4.12.125
Pacuvius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.3.9
Pacuvium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.2.3

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Pacuvius (scan p. 654; entry #10851).

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