The corpus record — Latin

regulus1

regulus1 · m

The ruler of a small country

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

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 3 · 180.72/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 17s 1 · 83.33/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 3 · 4.43/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 3 · 3.95/10k
Letters 23 · 3.55/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 2 · 3.49/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 4 · 3.26/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 5 · 2.99/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rēgŭlus — Lewis & Short

rēgŭlus, i, m.dim.rex.

I The ruler of a small country (Gr. duna/sths), a petty king, prince, chieftain, lord (freq. in the historians; not in Cæs. or Cic.): regulos se acceptos in fidem in Hispaniā reges reliquisse, Liv. 37, 25; Sall. J. 11, 2; Liv. 5, 38; 27, 4; 29, 4 al.: Cilicum reguli, Tac. A. 2, 80; id. Agr. 24; Suet. Calig. 5; Vulg. Josue, 13, 3 al.—

II Transf.

A Of the king-bee, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 18.—

B A king's son, a prince (cf. rex and regina), Liv. 42, 24, 10; 45, 14, 6 al.—

C A small bird, Auct. Carm. Phil. 13.—

D A kind of serpent, Hier. in Isa. 16, 59, 6; Vulg. Prov. 23, 32; id. Isa. 30, 6.

2. Rēgŭlus — Lewis & Short

Rēgŭlus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname.

I Of the Atilii, among whom was the celebrated consul M. Atilius Regulus, who was taken prisoner by the Carthaginians in the first Punic war, Cic. Off. 3, 26, 99; id. Fin. 2, 20, 65; Sen. Prov. 4, 5; cf. Gell. 6, 4, 1 sqq.; Sen. Prov. 3, 4 and 9 sqq.—

II Of the Livineii, Auct. B. Afr. 89, 3; Cic. Fam. 13, 60, 1; id. Att. 3, 17, 1.—

III Another, called by Modestus omnium bipedum nequissimus, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 14.—

IV Aquilius Regulus, Tac. A. 3, 42.

In the wild

Regulus Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.2.2
Regulus Tacitus, Annales 14.p48
Regulus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.5.p1
Regulo Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.2.4
Regulo Seneca, De Providentia 1.3.4
Regulo Tacitus, Historiae 4.44

6 of 211 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.