The corpus record — Latin

Pyrrhus

Pyrrhus · m

Son of Achilles and Deïdamia

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 5 · 294.12/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 3 · 252.1/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 12s 1 · 103.09/10k
Troades 18 · 26.42/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
de Bello Gothico 5 · 12.4/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
De Senectute 5 · 6.05/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 5.39/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 5 · 3.96/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 10 · 3.8/10k

Densest 12 of 78 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pyrrhus — Lewis & Short

Pyrrhus, i, m., = *pu/rros.

I Son of Achilles and Deïdamia (otherwise called Neoptolemus), founder of a kingdom in Epirus, slain at Delphi by Orestes, Just. 17, 3, 18; Verg. A. 2, 469; 526 sq.; Ov. H. 8, 3; Hyg. Fab. 97; 123; Dict. Cret. 4, 15. —

2 Pyrrhi Castra, a place in Laconia, Liv. 35, 27; in Triphylia, id. 32, 13. — Hence,

B Pyrrhĭdae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of the kingdom founded in Epirus by Pyrrhus, Just. 17, 3, 3. —

II King of Epirus, about 280 B.C., an enemy of the Romans; on account of his descent from Achilles, called Aeacides (v. h. v.), Cic. Lael. 8, 28; id. Rep. 3, 28, 31; id. Fin. 2, 19, 61; id. Off. 1, 12, 38; 3, 22, 86; Hor. C. 3, 6, 35; Just. 35, 3 sqq.; Sil. 14, 94.

In the wild

Pyrrhum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.29.2
Pyrrho Seneca, Troades 1
Pyrrhi Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 34
Pyrrhus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 p42
Pyrrhi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p1
Pyrrhi Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2

6 of 246 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.