The corpus record — Latin

Xenophon

Xenophon · m

a celebratea Greek historian and philosopher

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

Where it lives

Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
De Senectute 4 · 4.84/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
De Inventione 7 · 2.11/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Xĕnŏphon — Lewis & Short

Xĕnŏphon, ontis, m., = *cenofw=n,

I a celebratea Greek historian and philosopher, born B. C. 445, a pupil of Socrates and a leader of the Greeks in the army of Cyrus the younger, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 52; id. Tusc. 5, 34, 99; id. Sen. 9, 30; id. Leg. 2, 22, 56; Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 8.—Hence, Xĕnŏphontēus or -īus, a, um, adj., = *cenofo/nteios, of or belonging to Xenophon, Xenophontian: genus sermonis, Cic. Brut. 35, 132: Hercules, i. e. mentioned in his writings, id. Fam. 5, 12, 3.

In the wild

Xenophonte Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus 1
Xenophontis Cicero, Orator 32.p1
Xenophontis Cicero, De Senectute 59
Xenophontis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.3.1
Xenophon Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.75
Xenophon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.48.p1

6 of 77 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.