Vălentīnĭāni — Lewis & Short
Vălentīnĭāni, ōrum, m.,
I a sect of heretics in the second century, against whom Tertullian wrote a book. They were named from Valentius, Tert. adv. Val. 2; Lact. 4, 30, 10; Cod. Th. 10, 5, 65,§ 2.
The corpus record — Latin
Valentiniani
Valentiniani · m
a sect of heretics in the second century
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k
- De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
- De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
- Res Gestae 8 · 0.63/10k
- De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Valentiniani Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.36
- Valentiniani Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.10.8
- Valentiniani Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 33
- Valentiniani Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 4
- Valentiniani Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.6.27
- Valentiniani Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.5.46
6 of 14 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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