The corpus record — Latin

Timoleon

Timoleon · m

a Corinthian general

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Where it lives

Timoleon 5 · 60.39/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Tīmŏlĕon — Lewis & Short

Tīmŏlĕon, ontis, m., = *timole/wn,

I a Corinthian general, whose life was written by Nepos, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7.—Hence, Tīmŏ-lĕontēus, a, um, adj., of or named from Timoleon: gymnasium, Nep. Tim. 5, 4.

In the wild

Timoleon Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon 1
Timoleonti Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.12.7
Timoleon Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon 2
Timoleon Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon 2
Timoleon Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon 5
Timoleontis Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon 3

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.