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Vergilius

Vergilius · m

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Fragmenta 1 · 74.07/10k
Suasoriae 11 · 10.71/10k
Noctes Atticae 85 · 7.6/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 7 · 7.53/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
De Bello Africo 9 · 6.92/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Satyrarum libri 5 · 3.52/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Institutio Oratoria 47 · 2.73/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Vergĭlĭus — Lewis & Short

Vergĭlĭus (not Virgĭlĭus; the form Ver- is supported by the ancient MSS. and inscriptions in unbroken succession, to the fourth century A.D.; v. Ritschl, Opusc. Phil. 2, 779 sq.), ii, m.,

I the name of a Roman gens; so, esp., P. Vergilius Maro, a celebrated Roman poet, Hor. C. 1, 3, 6; 1, 24, 10; 4, 12, 13; id. S. 1, 5, 40.—Hence, Vergĭlĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Vergil, Vergilian: virtus, Plin. praef. § 22: illud, Quint. 1, 3, 13: VERGILIANVS POëTA, a writer of a cento of Vergilian verses, Inscr. Grut. 64, 5.

In the wild

Vergilio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.9
Vergilio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.11.26
Vergilio Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 44
Vergilii Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.10.1
Vergilium Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 86
Vergilius Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.16.18

6 of 314 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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