The corpus record — Latin

Vitellius

Vitellius · 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

Historiae 316 · 61.4/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 4 · 47.06/10k
Vitellius 10 · 41.55/10k
Otho 4 · 25.36/10k
Divus Vespasianus 5 · 15.63/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 4 · 6.91/10k
Annales 40 · 4.5/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Vĭtellĭus — Lewis & Short

Vĭtellĭus, i, m.,

I the name of a Roman gens. So esp., A. Vitellius, a Roman emperor.—Hence,

A Vĭtellĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Vitellius, Vitellian: via, so named after him, Suet. Vit. 1; Tac. H. 1, 1; 1, 57.—

B Vĭtellĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Vitellius, Vitellian: milites, Tac. H. 1, 85: partes, id. ib. 1, 84: bellum, Suet. Dom. 1: vitia, Capitol. Ver. 4.—

2 Plur. subst.: Vĭtellĭāni, ōrum, m.

a Soldiers of Vitellius, Vitellians, Tac. H. 3, 79; Suet. Vesp. 8.—

b A kind of writing-tablets, perh. used by Vitellius, Mart. 2, 6, 6; 14, 8, 2; 14, 9 in lemm.

In the wild

Vitellio Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 34
Vitellius Tacitus, Historiae 1.61
Vitellium Tacitus, Historiae 2.87
Vitellii Tacitus, Historiae 2.29
Vitellio Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 5.1
Vitellio Tacitus, Historiae 3.66

6 of 406 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.