The corpus record — Latin

Solon1

Solon1 · m

A famous legislator of the Athenians

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 11 · 83.4/10k
De Senectute 4 · 4.84/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Officiis 4 · 1.18/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Noctes Atticae 9 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Sŏlon — Lewis & Short

Sŏlon or Sŏlo (the latter in ōnis, m., = *so/lwn.

Cic. Rep. 2, 1, 2),

I A famous legislator of the Athenians, one of the seven sages of Greece, Cic. Brut. 7, 27; 10, 39; id. de Or. 1, 44, 197; id. Leg. 2, 23, 59; 2, 25, 64; Liv. 3, 31 fin.; Juv. 10, 274.—Plur.: aerumnosi Solones, i. e. philosophers, Pers. 3, 79 al.—

II A commander in Pydna, Liv. 44, 45.

2. Sŏlōn — Lewis & Short

Sŏlōn, ōnis, m., = *solw/nion,

I a city of the Allobroges, in Gallia Narbonensis, north-west of the Rhodanus, perh. near the modern Sortie, Liv. Epit. 103.

In the wild

Solone Cicero, De Officiis 1.75.p1
Solone Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.26.p83
Solon Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.108
Solonem Plautus, Asinaria 3.3
Solonis Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.45.7
Solonem Cicero, De Oratore 1.58

6 of 76 attestations shown.

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.