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Atticum

Atticum is a Latin form of Atticus, meaning “Attic, Athenian; Atticus (Roman cognomen)”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.93: … dorum Sillim ceteros, figebat maledictis, sed Socraten ipsum parentem philosophiae Latino verbo utens scurram Atticum fuisse dicebat, Chrysippum numquam nisi Chrysippam vocabat.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.12.1: HERODEM ATTICUM, consularem virum, Athenis disserentem audivi Graeca oratione, in qua fere omnes memoriae nostrae universos gravitate atque copia et elegantia vocum longe praestitit.

Vitruvius, On Architecture 7.14.1: … nfecta creta rubiae radice et hysgino, non minus et ex floribus alii colores. itaque tectores, cum volunt sil atticum imitari, violam aridam coicientes in vas cum aqua, confervefaciunt ad ignem, deinde, cum est temperatum, coic …

All forms of Atticus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.