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Tullius

Tullius · m

the name of a Roman

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pro M. Tullio 28 · 81.49/10k
Didius Julianus 4 · 25.16/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 10 · 7.57/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 12 · 6.88/10k
Noctes Atticae 67 · 5.99/10k
Catilina 5 · 4.69/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 8 · 4.49/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k

Densest 12 of 78 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Tullĭus — Lewis & Short

Tullĭus, i, m.; Tullĭa, ae, f.,

I the name of a Roman gens. Esp.,

I Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, Liv. 1, 41 sqq. —

II M. Tullius Cicero, the renowned statesman and orator.—

III Q. Tullius Cicero, his brother.—

IV M. Tullius Tiro, a freedman of M. Cicero.—

V Fem. Tullia, a daughter of king Servius Tullius, and wife of Tarquinius Superbus.—Also,

VI A daughter of M. Tullius Cicero.—Hence, Tullĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Tullius, Tullian: semis, Cic. Att. 15, 29, 1: caput, id. ib. 15, 26, 4: Scipio, i. e. introduced in Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1.—Subst.: Tullĭānum, i, n., the dungeon of the state-prison in Rome, built by king Servius Tullius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 151 Müll.; Sall. C. 55, 3 sq.; Liv. 29, 22, 10; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 262 sq.—Adv.: Tullĭānē, in the manner of M. Tullius Cicero: jocari, Aug. contr. Pelag. 2, 10, 37.

2. tullius — Walde–Hofmann

tullius, -; m. „Schwall, Guß“ o. dgl. (Enn. scaen. 20, vgl. Fest. p. 352 tullios alii dixerunt esse silänös, alii vehementes pröiectiönes sanguinis , arcuMim. fluentes, quäles sunt. Tiburi in Aniene): vl. zu gr. tun f, „Wulst, Schwiele* usw., vgl. nhd. Schwall : schwellen. s. tumeö (Walde LEW.?797). Auch Tullus (Tullius, Tulliola, Tullianus, Tulliäna usw., seit Cic.) könnten dann ursprgl. „dicke, gedunsene Personen* … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tullius, p. 1622]

In the wild

Tullius Sallust, Catilina 24
Tulli Silius Italicus, Punica 12.175
Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p530
Tullii Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.5
Tullium Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p2
Tullio Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p61

6 of 382 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. tullius (scan p. 730; entry #12184).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tullius (scan pp. 1622-1623; entry #3114). Root candidates: *to-, *tu-.

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.