The corpus record — Latin

tempe

a charming valley in Thessaly

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 6 · 4.74/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 3 · 2.6/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 3 · 1.79/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tempē — Lewis & Short

Tempē, indecl.

I plur. n., = *te/mph, ta(

I Lit., a charming valley in Thessaly, through which ran the river Peneus, between Olympus and Ossa, now valley of Lykostomo or Dereli, Mel. 2, 3, 2; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 31; 16, 44, 92, § 244; Liv. 44, 6; 33, 35; Hor. C. 1, 7; 4; 1, 21, 9; 3, 1, 24: Peneia, Verg. G. 4, 317; Ov. M. 7, 222.—

II Transf., of other beautiful valleys: frigida, Verg. G. 2, 469; Ov. F. 4, 477; id. Am. 1, 1, 15: Cycneia, id. M. 7, 371; Stat. Th. 1, 485 (cf. written as Greek: Reatini me ad sua te/mph duxerunt, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5).

In the wild

Tempe Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.6.6
Tempe Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.286
tempe Statius, Thebais 6.88
Tempe Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.452
Tempe Horace, Carmina 1.7.4
Tempe Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 p17

6 of 64 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tempe (scan p. 705; entry #11711).

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