The corpus record — Latin

pastor

pastor · m

a herdsman

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

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 8 · 30.62/10k
Eclogues 9 · 19.83/10k
Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 7 · 13.15/10k
Georgicon 12 · 8.48/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
De Pudicitia 9 · 6.69/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
In Rufinum 3 · 5.24/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 9 · 5.16/10k
Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k

Densest 12 of 106 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pastor — Lewis & Short

pastor (PAASTOR, ōris, m.pasco,

Inscr. Orell. 3308),

I a herdsman, esp. a shepherd (syn. opilio): Mars pater ... pastores pecuaque salva servassis, Cato, R. R. 141, 3: servos pastores armat, Caes. B. C. 1, 24: jam pastor umbras ... quaerit, Hor. C. 3, 29, 21: pastor durus, Juv. 11, 151: boni pastoris esse tondere pecus, non deglubere, Suet. Tib. 32.—

B Trop., a shepherd: populi (transl. of the Gr. poime/na law=n, Hom. Il. 2, 243), Quint. 8, 6, 18.—

II Transf.

1 A keeper: pavonum, Varr R. R. 3, 6, 5: columbarius, id. ib. 3, 7, 5: gallinarum, Col. 8, 2, 7: anserum, Dlg. 32, 1, 66.—

2 The minister or superintendent of a church or congregation (eccl. Lat.): pastores Israel, Vulg. Ezech. 34. 2: pastores et doctores, id. Eph. 4, 11.—Esp., of Christ: Ego sum pastor bonus, Vulg. Johan. 10, 11: eduxit de mortuis Pastorem magnum, id. Heb. 13, 20; cf. 1 Pet. 2, 25; 5, 4.

In the wild

pastores Ovid, Fasti 4.795
pastor Ovid, Fasti 4.735
pastor Martial, Epigrammata 8.53.3
pastoris Silius Italicus, Punica 17.576
pastor Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p12
pastorum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.4.9

6 of 383 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.