The corpus record — Latin

Valens1

Valens1 · m

the father of the third Mercury

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

Where it lives

Tyranni Triginta 9 · 13.66/10k
Historiae 64 · 12.44/10k
Gallieni Duo 3 · 8.17/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Res Gestae 65 · 5.1/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Vălens — Lewis & Short

Vălens, entis, m.,

I the father of the third Mercury, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56.—

II A Roman emperor, brother and colleague of Valentinian, Cod. Th. 11, 28, 9.—

III A nobleman of Cremona, Tac. A. 2, 67; 2, 70.

2. vălens — Lewis & Short

vălens, entis, P. a. of valeo.

Part. and

In the wild

Valentem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.12.9.p2
Valentem Tacitus, Historiae 2.81
Valentis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.17
Valenti Tacitus, Historiae 1.64
Valentem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.12.9
Valens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.8.3

6 of 162 attestations shown.

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.