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Simonides

Simonides · m

a celebrated lyric poet of Cos

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Where it lives

Fabulae Aesopiae 7 · 6.38/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
De Divinatione 5 · 1.82/10k
De Oratore 6 · 1/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
Institutio Oratoria 6 · 0.35/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Sĭmōnĭdes — Lewis & Short

Sĭmōnĭdes, is, m., = *simwni/dhs,

I a celebrated lyric poet of Cos, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 42, 101; 1, 24, 59; id. N. D. 1, 22, 60; id. Div. 1, 27, 56; Quint. 10, 1, 64; 11, 2, 11 al.—Hence, Sĭmōnĭdēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to simonides: lacrimae, i. e. poems of Simonides that moved the reader to tears, Cat. 38, 8 (cf. Hor. C. 2, 1, 38; Quint. 10, 1, 64).

In the wild

Simonides Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.22.2
Simonide Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.6.p51
Simonide Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.22.13
Simonides Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1.8e.7
Simonides Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.2.12
Simonides Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.64

6 of 50 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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