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Timaeus

Timaeus · m

A Greek historian of Sicily

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
de Natura Deorum 4 · 1.12/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4 · 0.8/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tīmaeus — Lewis & Short

Tīmaeus, i, m., = *ti/maios.

I A Greek historian of Sicily, under Agathocles, Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 58; id. N. D. 2, 27, 69; id. Fam. 5, 12, 2; id. Rep. 3, 31, 43; id. Brut. 16, 63; Nep. Alcib. 11, 1.—

II A Pythagorean philosopher, a contemporary of Plato, Cic. Fin. 5, 29. 87; id. Rep. 1, 10, 16. — After him was named the Platonic dialogue Timaeus, which Cicero translated into Latin, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 63; id. N. D. 1, 8, 18; id. Ac. 2, 39, 123; id. Fin. 2, 5, 15; v. the fragment of this translation (Timaeus sive de Universo), Cic. ed. B. and K. vol. viii. p. 131 sqq.

In the wild

Timaeus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.22.p1
Timaeo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.4.p36
Timaeum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.17.5
Timaeo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.13
Timaeus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.12.2
Timaeus Celsus, De Medicina 5.22.p7

6 of 56 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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