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Pergama

Pergama · n

the citadel of Troy

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Where it lives

Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
Aeneid 17 · 2.68/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Epistulae 5 · 1.96/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 1.42/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pergăma — Lewis & Short

Pergăma, ōrum, or Pergămum (Pergămon), i, n., = *pe/rgama or *pe/rgamon,

I the citadel of Troy, poet. for Troy: Pergama, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 512, 32 (Trag. Rel. v. 2 Rib.); Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Trag. v. 98 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 476; Verg. A. 1, 651; 2, 177; 571; Ov. M. 12, 445; 591; 13, 169 et saep.: Pergamo, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42; Pac. ap. Non. 280, 27: Pergamum (acc.), Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 2; (nom.) Sen. Agam. 419; id. Troad. 14: Pergamon, Auct. Aetn. 18.—

B Lavinia Pergama, i. e. Lavinium, Sil. 13, 64.— Hence,

II Pergămĕus, a, um, adj., Trojan (poet.): arces, Verg. A. 3, 110: gens, id. ib. 6, 63: Lar, id. ib. 5, 744: vates, i. e. Cassandra, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 51.—

2 Transf., Roman (on account of the descent of the Romans from the Trojans): sanguis, Sil. 1, 47.

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