The corpus record — Latin

Zoilus

Zoilus · m

a severe critic in the time of

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Zōĭlus — Lewis & Short

Zōĭlus, i, m., = *zw/ilos,

I a severe critic in the time of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, a censurer of Homer (hence called *(omhroma/stic, Homeromastix), Vitr. 7 praef.— Transf., of a censorious person, Ov. R. Am. 366; Mart. 11, 37, 1.

In the wild

Zoilus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 6.6.35
Zoilo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.13.p67
Zoilus Martial, Epigrammata 2.16.1
Zoilus Martial, Epigrammata 3.29.2
Zoilus Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.pr.8
Zoilus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.46

6 of 9 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.