The corpus record — Latin

tholus

tholus · m

a dome

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Where it lives

Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

thŏlus — Lewis & Short

thŏlus, i, m., = qo/los,

I a dome, cupola, a rotunda (syn.: fornix, testudo), Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 12; id. ap. Non. 448, 22; Vitr. 4, 7; 7, 5 med.; Ov. F. 6, 282; 6, 296; Mart. 2, 59, 2. — In the tholi of the temple the votive gifts were suspended, Verg. A. 9, 408; Stat. S. 1, 4, 32; id. Th. 2, 734; Val. Fl. 1, 56.

In the wild

tholi Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.5.5
tholo Statius, Silvae 1.4.99
tholus Martial, Epigrammata 1.70.10
tholo Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.pr.12
tholo Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.57
tholis Statius, Thebais 4.333

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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