The corpus record — Latin

Xanthus

Xanthus · m

the name of several rivers

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

Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Aeneid 9 · 1.42/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistulae 3 · 1.17/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k

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

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Xanthus, i, m., = *ca/nqos,

I the name of several rivers.

I A river of Troas, confounded by many with the Scamander, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 124; 2, 103, 106, § 230; Verg. A. 1, 473; 5, 634 al.; Ov. M. 2, 245; 9, 646; Vitr. 8, 3 med.—

II A river in Lycia, near a town of the same name, now Essenide, Mel. 1, 15, 3; Verg. A. 4, 143; id. Cul. 14; Hor. C. 4, 6, 26; Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 100; 6, 34, 39, § 214.—

III A small stream in Epirus, Verg. A. 3, 350.

In the wild

Xanthum Vergil, Aeneid 10.60
Xanthum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.3
Xanthique Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.646
Xanthus Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.557
Xanthi Vergil, Aeneid 3.350
Xanthum Silius Italicus, Punica 13.72

6 of 42 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.