The corpus record — Latin

Sais

Sais · f

the capital of Lower Egypt

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Săïs — Lewis & Short

Săïs, is, f., = *sa/i(s,

I the capital of Lower Egypt, now Sa el-Hajar, Mel. 1, 9, 9; Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 64.—Hence,

A Săītes, ae, adj., = *sai(ths, of or belonging to Sais, Saitic: (nomos), Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 49.—In plur. subst.: Săītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Sais, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59.—

B Săĭ_tĭcus, a, um, adj., of Sais, Saitic: (charta), Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76.

In the wild

Sais Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.10.p1
Saeve Lucan, Pharsalia 5.315
Saeve Statius, Silvae 2.6.1
Saeve Lucan, Pharsalia 2.59

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.