The corpus record — Latin

Sabazius

Sabazius · m

a surname

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

Săbāzĭus — Lewis & Short

Săbāzĭus (collat. form Sĕbāzĭus, Sĕbādĭus or Săbādĭus, ii, m., = *saba/zios,

Macr. S. 1, 18; App. M. 8, p. 213),

I a surname.

I Of Bacchus, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 37; Arn. 5, p. 101; Macr. l. l.—Hence, Săbā-zĭa, ōrum, n., a festival in honor of Sabazius or Bacchus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 58; Arn. 5, 170; Inscr. Orell. 2357.—

II Of Jupiter: Sabazii Jovis cultus, Val. Max. 1, 3, 2; Inscr. Orell. 1259.

In the wild

Sabadius Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.25

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.