The corpus record — Latin

Sulla

Sulla · m

a surname in the

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Where it lives

Pro P. Sulla 77 · 82.76/10k
Jugurtha 36 · 16.96/10k
Historiae 6 · 14.79/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 3 · 14.69/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 19 · 14.34/10k
De Lege Agraria 19 · 13.79/10k
Divus Julius 13 · 13.34/10k
Atticus 4 · 11.31/10k
Catilina 11 · 10.31/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 20 · 7.59/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 4 · 6/10k
De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k

Densest 12 of 82 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Sulla — Lewis & Short

Sulla (less correctly Sylla), ae, m.,

I a surname in the gens Cornelia. So, esp.,

I L. Cornelius Sulla Felix, the celebrated Roman dictator, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72; Sall. J. 100, 2; Flor. 3, 21, 5; Vell. 2, 17, 1.—Hence, Sullānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sulla: tempus, Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46: ager, id. Agr. 2, 26, 70: assignationes, id. ib. 3, 1, 3: proscriptio, Sen. Ira, 2, 34, 3: saeculum, id. ib. 1, 20, 4: partes, Nep. Att. 2: tempora, Plin. 9, 35, 59, § 123. — Subst.: Sullāni, ōrum, m., partisans of Sulla, Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7.—

II L. Cornelius Sulla Faustus, usually called Faustus Sulla, a son of the dictator, Cic. Clu. 34, 94; id. Agr. 1, 4, 12; id. Att. 8, 3, 7 al.—

III P. Cornelius Sulla, a relation of the dictator, accused of ambitus, and defended by Cicero in an oration still extant. —

IV Publius and Servius Sulla, conspirators with Catiline, Sall. C. 17, 3; cf. Cic. Sull. 2, 4.—

V An astrologer of the time of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 57.

2. Sylla — Lewis & Short

Sylla, ae, v. Sulla.

3. sylla — Walde–Hofmann

sylla, -ae f. „Art Luzerne* (Plin): — vorrómiseh nach MeyerLübke n. 8494a. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sylla, p. 1546]

In the wild

Sullae Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 105
Sulla Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 130
Sullae Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.3.2
Sullae Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 72
Sulla Cicero, De Lege Agraria 3.13
Sulla Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.6.3

6 of 526 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.