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Paean

Paean · m

An appellation of Apollo

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Where it lives

Orator 8 · 4.33/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Pharsalia 8 · 1.57/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k

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

What it meant

Paean — Lewis & Short

Paean, ānis, m., = *paia/n.

I An appellation of Apollo, as the healing deity: signum Paeanis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127: Paeana voca, Ov. M. 14, 720; Juv. 6, 172; cf. Fest. p. 222 Müll.; Macr. S. 1, 17.—

II Transf.

A A religious hymn, orig. in honor of Apollo, but also transf. to other deities, a festive hymn, hymn of triumph or praise, a pœan: conclamant socii laetum paeana secuti, Verg. A. 10, 738; id. ib. 6, 657: Herculeum paeana canunt, Stat. Th. 4, 157: paeanem citare, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251.—As a simple exclamation, like hymenaee: dicite io Paean, et io bis dicite Paean, shout huzza! Ov. A. A. 2, 1.—

B The prevailing foot in the versification of such hymns, consisting of one long syllable and three short ones, Cic. Or. 64, 215 and 218 (commonly written paeon, q. v.).

In the wild

paeane Cicero, Orator 196.p1
Paeanis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.127
paean Cicero, Orator 197
paeane Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.79
Paeanem Cicero, De Oratore 1.251
paean Cicero, Orator 215.p2

6 of 50 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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