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scaena

scaena · f

the stage

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 4 · 30.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 4 · 12.94/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
De Spectaculis 6 · 9.43/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 4 · 8.4/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2 · 7.53/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
C. Caligula 5 · 6.55/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
De Architectura 27 · 4.68/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. scaena — Lewis & Short

scaena, ae (falsely scēna, v. Prol. in f., = skhnh/.

Verg. p. 387 Rib.),

I Lit., the stage, boards, scene of a theatre: dum histrio in scaenă siet, Plaut. Poen. prol. 20: in scaenă esse Roscium intellegat, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: foris hic extra scaenam fient proelia, Plaut. Capt. prol. 60: cum scaena croco Cilici perfusa recens est, Lucr. 2, 416: scaenaique simul varios splendere decores, id. 4, 983: scaenae magnificentia, Cic. Mur. 19, 38: nec vero scaena solum referta est his sceleribus, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: vel scaena ut versis discedat frontibus, Verg. G. 3, 24; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205 et saep.—Plur.: columnas excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris, a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 429: aut Agamemnonius scaenis agitatus Orestes, on the stage, i. e. in tragedies, Verg. A. 4, 471: aut agitur res in scaenis, Hor. A. P. 179.—

B Transf.

1 Of a place like a scene of a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 164.—

2 (Post-Aug.) Of the schools of rhetoric, as scenes for the display of eloquence: at nunc adulescentuli deducuntur in scaenas scholasticorum, qui rhetores vocantur, Tac. Or. 35; cf. Plin Ep. 7, 17, 9.—

II Trop.

1 The public stage, the public: quia maxima quasi oratori scaena videatur contionis, Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 338; id. Planc. 12, 29: ubi se a vulgo et scaena in secreta remorant Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli, Hor. S. 2, 1, 71.—Prov.: scaenae servire, to show one's self, live in the public eye, Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 8, 2.—

2 Outward show, parade, pretext: scaena rei totius haec: Pompeius, tamquam Caesarem non impugnet, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3; cf.: ne quid scaenae deesset, Petr. 117, 10; Suet. Calig. 15: scaenam ultro criminis parat, Tac. A. 14, 7 fin.—

3 Appearance, character: scaenam quam sponte sumpserat cum animă retinens, App. M. 4, 20, p. 151, 29.

2. scaena — Walde–Hofmann

scaena (scäna), -ae f. „die Bühne des Theaters, Schauplatz, Szene, Szenerie“ (seit Plaut., scaenicus „zur Bühne gehörig“ seit Ter., scaenülis ds. seit Luer., scaendrius ds. Amm., -um n. „Szenarium® (seit Inschr. 1. Jh.), scaenátilis und scaenaticus ds. seit Varro, proscaenium n. „Vordergrund der Bühne" seit Plt.): entl. aus gr. dàn vfj (proscaenium aus gr. mpoockr|viov), u. zw. durch etr. Vermittlung (etr. scaina … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scaena, p. 1391]

In the wild

scaena Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.1.2
scaena Tacitus, Annales 16.p4
scaenae Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.6.1
scaenam Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.4.6
scaenam Tacitus, Annales 15.p40
scaenam Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 29

6 of 225 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scaena (scan p. 1391; entry #2451).

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