The corpus record — Latin

Pamphilus

Pamphilus · m

a Greek proper name

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

Where it lives

Andria 178 · 180.67/10k
Hecyra 107 · 118.7/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Pamphĭlus — Lewis & Short

Pamphĭlus, i, m., = *pa/mfilos,

I a Greek proper name.

I A disciple of Plato, whom Epicurus heard, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72.—

II A celebrated painter, a native of Amphipolis, the instructor of Apelles, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 75; 35, 11, 40, § 123.—

III A rhetorician, Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81; Quint. 3, 6, 33.

In the wild

PAMPHILUS Terence, Andria 1.5
PAMPHILUS Terence, Andria 5.3
PAMPHILUS Terence, Andria 5.4
PAMPHILUS Terence, Andria 3.5
Pamphilus Terence, Andria front.subject_1
Pamphilus Terence, Hecyra front.subject_3

6 of 292 attestations shown.

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.