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torquatus

torquatus · adj

adorned with a neck-chain

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Where it lives

Pro P. Sulla 22 · 23.65/10k
Atticus 4 · 11.31/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 47 · 9.4/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 6 · 5.51/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Catilina 2 · 1.87/10k
Letters to Atticus 22 · 1.79/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 2 · 1.72/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 13 · 1.64/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. torquātus — Lewis & Short

torquātus, a, um, adj.torques,

I adorned with a neck-chain or collar. In gen.: miles, presented with a chain for his bravery, Veg. Mil. 2, 7 fin.: affuit Alecto brevibus torquata colubris, with snakes coiled about her neck, Ov. H. 2, 119: palumbus, the ring-dove, Mart. 13, 67, 1: quid de aliis dicimus, qui calamistratos et torquatos habeant in ministerio, Amhros. Ep. 69, 7.

2. Torquātus — Lewis & Short

Torquātus, i, m.1. torquatus,

I the surname of T. Manlius, so called because he put on the neck-chain of a Gaul whom he slew in single combat; also, of his descendants, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 19; Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23; id. Off. 3, 31, 112; Liv. 7, 10; Flor. 1, 13.—Adj.: Torquata nomina, Luc. 7, 584.—Hence, Torquātĭānus, a, um, of or belonging to a Torquatus, Torquatian: horti, Front. Aquaed. 5.

In the wild

Torquato Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.3.4
Torquatus Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 14
Torquate Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.48
Torquate Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.1.2
Torquate Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.109
Torquato Suetonius, C. Caligula 35.1

6 of 207 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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