The corpus record — Latin

Tagus

Tagus · m

a river in Lusitania

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

Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 4 · 2.71/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Epigrammata 10 · 1.78/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tăgus — Lewis & Short

Tăgus, i, m.,

I a river in Lusitania, celebrated for its golden sands, now Tajo or Tagus, Liv. 21, 5, 8; Mel. 3, 1, 6; Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 115; Ov. Am. 1, 15, 34; id. M. 2, 251; Luc. 7, 755; Sil. 1, 155; 16, 559; Mart. 1, 50, 15; 10, 96, 3.

In the wild

Tago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.3.p5
Tagi Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.31.5
Tagum Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.230
Tagus Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Tagus Silius Italicus, Punica 1.155
Tagi Martial, Epigrammata 10.78.12

6 of 69 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.