The corpus record — Latin

Paeon

Paeon · m

a metrical foot of four syllables

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 2 · 1.19/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 1 · 0.76/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

paeon — Lewis & Short

paeon, ōnis (paean, ānis, m., = paiw/n,

Cic. Or. 64, 215 v. h. v.),

I a metrical foot of four syllables, three short and one long (and which, acc. to the position of the long syllable, is called primus, secundus, tertius, quartus), Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 183; Quint. 9, 4, 47; 87; 110; Diom. p. 477 P.; Don. p. 1739 ib.; Mar. Vict. p. 1957.

In the wild

Paeon Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.51.6
Paeonibus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 p28
Paeones Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.51.5
Paeonibus Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.29.7
Paeones Statius, Achilleis 2.131
Paeonum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.9.24

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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