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Rhenus

Rhenus · m

The Rhine

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Where it lives

De Bissula 2 · 54.5/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 13 · 23.58/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 2 · 19.12/10k
De bello Gallico 65 · 12.67/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 8 · 10.55/10k
de Bello Gothico 4 · 9.92/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Rhēnus — Lewis & Short

Rhēnus, i, m.

I The Rhine, the river which divided Gaul from Germany, Caes. B. G. 1, 1; 4, 10; 4, 17; 6, 9; Tac. G. 1; id. A. 1, 63; 2, 6; Mel. 3, 2 sq.; Plin. 4, 14, 28, § 100; Cic. Pis. 33, 81; Verg. A. 8, 727; id. E. 10, 47; Hor. S. 1, 10, 37; id. A. P. 18; Ov. M. 2, 258; id. P. 3, 4, 88.—Hence, Rhē-nānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Rhine, Rhenish: terrae, Sid. Ep. 4, 17 (but in Mart. 9, 35, 4, Rhenigenam is the better reading).—;

2 Meton., the dwellers on the Rhine, the Germans, Ov. F. 1, 286; id. P. 3, 4, 88; Luc. 5, 268; Stat. S. 1, 4, 89; hence, plur.: ingentes locat Rhenos, Pers. 6, 47.—

II A small river in Italy tributary to the Po, now the Reno, Plin. 3, 16, 20, § 118; Sil. 8, 599.

In the wild

Rhenum Tacitus, Annales 1.p60
Rhenus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.15.p1
Rhenum Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.54.1
Rheni Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 6.29.4
Rheni Suetonius, Divus Augustus 25.2
Rhenique Lucan, Pharsalia 1.464

6 of 311 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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