Xerxes — Lewis & Short
Xerxes (Xerses, m., = *ce/rchs,
Cic. Leg. 2, 10, 26), is (i, Nep. Reg. 1),I the celebrated king of Persia, son of Darius Hystaspis, vanquished by the Greeks at Salamis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 7, 20; id. N. D. 1, 41, 115.
The corpus record — Latin
Xerxes
Xerxes · m
the celebrated king of Persia
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Where it lives
- De Regibus 2 · 45.15/10k
- Aristides 1 · 29.24/10k
- Themistocles 3 · 17.52/10k
- Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
- Suasoriae 8 · 7.79/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
- Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
- In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
- C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 10 · 1.26/10k
- Historiae Alexandri Magni 9 · 1.21/10k
- Epitome Rerum Romanorum 3 · 1.14/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- Xerxes Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.21.12
- Xerxe Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p134
- Xerxes Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.5e.2
- Xerxe Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles 9
- Xerxes Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.10e.1
- Xerxes Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.1.11
6 of 71 attestations shown.
Where it came from
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