The corpus record — Latin

remex

a rower

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 5 · 4.8/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 8 · 4.73/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Bello Africo 6 · 4.61/10k
Pro L. Flacco 4 · 3.67/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 6 · 3.67/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 4 · 3.51/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rēmex — Lewis & Short

rēmex, ĭgis (

I gen. plur. remigium, Symm. Ep. 4, 7), m. remus-ago, a rower, oarsman, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5. 35; id. Merc. 4, 2, 5; Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114; id. Att. 13, 21, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 76; 2, 5, 33, § 86; Hor. Epod. 17, 16; Curt. 4, 5, 18.—Poet., of Charon, Sen. Herc. Fur. 557.—Of the fish that swallowed Jonah: remige inimico, Sedul. 1, 180.—

b Remex, collect. for remiges, a bench of rowers, the oarsmen of a vessel (poet. and postAug.): vacuos sensit sine remige portus, Verg. A. 4, 588: Velocem Mnestheus agit acri remige Pristim, id. ib. 5, 116; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Ov. M 6, 445; 8, 103; id. H. 3, 153; Hor. Epod. 16, 57: non remigem, non socios navalis ad classem frequentis habiturum, Liv. 37, 10, 9; Tac. A. 4, 5: remex militis officia turbabat, Curt. 4, 3, 18: milite ac remige, id. 4, 5, 18; Vell. 2, 79, 1.

In the wild

remigum Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.4.12
remiges Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.6.p13
remigum Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.33.41.8
remige Lucan, Pharsalia 9.149
remiges Tacitus, Historiae 2.38
remiges Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.5.18

6 of 173 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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