The corpus record — Latin

rhombus

rhombus · m

A magician

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 6 · 4.23/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rhombus — Lewis & Short

rhombus, i, m., = r(o/mbos.

I A magician's circle, Prop. 2, 28, 35 (3, 25, 1); 3, 6, 26 (4, 5, 26); Ov. Am. 1, 8, 7; Mart. 9, 30, 9; 12, 57, 17.—

II A kind of fish, flatfish, turbot, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 169; Hor. S. 1, 2, 116; 2, 2, 42; 48; 49; 95; 2, 8, 30; id. Epod. 2, 50; Juv. 4, 39; 68; 119; 11, 121; Mart. 13, 81 al.—

III A mathematical figure whose four sides and opposite angles are equal, a rhomb, Front. Expos. Form. p. 36 Goes.; Mart. Cap. 6, § 712.

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