The corpus record — Latin

versus3

(), , Part. of verto

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Where it lives

Pro Archia Poeta 5 · 16.04/10k
Cento Nuptialis 2 · 14.66/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 4 · 12.94/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Orator 12 · 6.49/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
Epistularum 5 · 5.5/10k

Densest 12 of 65 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. versus — Lewis & Short

versus (vors-), a, um,

Part. of verto.

2. versus — Lewis & Short

versus (vors-), adv. and prep., v. verto,

I P. a. fin.

3. versus — Lewis & Short

versus (vors-), ūs (ante-class. collat. form of the m.verto, a turning round, i. e. of the plough.

plur. versi, Laev. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P.: versorum, Laber. ib.: versis, Val. ib.),

I A furrow, Col. 2, 2, 25; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177.—

II Transf., a line, row.

A In gen.: in versum distulit ulmos, Verg. G. 4, 144: remorum, Liv. 33, 30, 5; cf. Verg. A. 5, 119: foliorum, Plin. 15, 29, 37, § 122: creber catenarum, Sil. 7, 658.—

B In partic., a line of writing; and in poetry, a verse: ut primum versum (legis) attenderet, Cic. Rab. Post. 6, 14: deplorat primis versibus mansionem suam, id. Att. 2, 16, 4; id. de Or. 1, 61, 261: magnum numerum versuum ediscere, Caes. B. G. 6, 14; Nep. Epam. 4, 6; Liv. 41, 24, 13; Quint. 1, 4, 3; 7, 1, 37; 10, 1, 38; 10, 1, 41; Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 16; Ov. Am. 1, 11, 21: si quis minorem gloriae fructum putat ex Graecis versibus percipi quam ex Latinis, vehementer errat, Cic. Arch. 10, 23; id. de Or. 2, 64, 257; 3, 50, 194; id. Or. 20, 67; Quint. 9, 4, 48 sq.; 11, 2, 39; 11, 2, 51; Hor. S. 1, 10, 54; 2, 1, 21; id. Ep. 2, 2, 52; Verg. E. 5, 2.—

C The note, song of the nightingale, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 83.—

III A land-measure, = Gr. ple/qron, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 1.—

IV A kind of dance, or a turn, step, pas in a dance, Plaut. Stich. 5, 7, 2.

In the wild

versibus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.180
versibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.22.20
versibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.9.3
versuum Ausonius, Epistularum 25.32
versibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.8.a
versibus Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.1.68

6 of 261 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. uersus (scan p. 749; entry #12520).

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