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The corpus record — Latin

successor

successor · m

a follower

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

successor — Lewis & Short

successor, ōris, m.succedo, II.,

I a follower, successor in office, possession, time, etc. (class.; cf. vicarius): conjunctissimus, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1; cf.: successori decessor invidit, id. Scaur. Fragm. 33; id. Prov. Cons. 15, 37; id. Fl. 14, 33; id. Fam. 3, 6, 2: successorem alicui mittere, to remove from office, Liv. 23, 27, 12; cf. id. 32, 28, 1: legato eum consulari successorem dedisse, Suet. Aug. 88; id. Dom. 1: successorem accipere, to be removed, Plin. Ep. 8, 13, 23: successores Alexandri, Quint. 12, 10, 6: studii successor et heres, Ov. M. 3, 589: quo successore (Philoctete) sagittae Herculis utuntur, i. e. the succeeding possessor, inheritor, id. ib. 13, 51: alieni criminis successor, Dig. 48, 19, 26: successore novo vincitur omnis amor, by a new favorite, Ov. R. Am. 462; cf.: novus habendus (clipeo), id. M. 13, 119: propositi successor honoris Junius, id. F. 5, 77: successor fuit hic tibi, Galle; Propertius illi, i. e. he followed you, wrote after you, id. Tr. 4, 10, 53.—Of a female: Phoebe, Fraternis successor equis, Corn. Sev. ap. Charis. p. 66 P.

In the wild

6 of 254 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.