The corpus record — Latin

Xenocrates

Xenocrates · m

a disciple of Plato

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

Where it lives

Academica 3 · 6.16/10k
Lucullus 5 · 2.78/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 10 · 1.76/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 8 · 1.6/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8 · 1.01/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Naturalis Historia 33 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Xĕnŏcrătes — Lewis & Short

Xĕnŏcrătes, is, m., = *cenokra/ths,

I a disciple of Plato, born at Chalcedon in the 95th Olympiad, B. C. 400, Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 17; id. Tusc. 5, 18, 51; id. Off. 1, 30, 109; id. Rep. 1, 2, 3.—

II A sculptor, a pupil of Tisicrates, and author of works on sculpture, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 83.—

III A writer on the art of painting, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 68.

In the wild

Xenocrates Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.26.p3
Xenocrate Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.1e.2.p2
Xenocrate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.12.p80
Xenocrates Cicero, Lucullus 137
Xenocratis Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p238
Xenocrates Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.31

6 of 81 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.