carmen

Latin term · 62 occurrences · 18 works

Short definition (Lewis & Short): a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

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62 occurrences of this form in 18 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

Metamorphoses
Ovid · 11 occurrences
Eclogues
Virgil · 6 occurrences
Epigrams
Martial · 5 occurrences
Annals
Tacitus · 5 occurrences
Ars Poetica
Horace · 4 occurrences
History of Rome (Books 1–10)
Livy · 4 occurrences
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca · 4 occurrences
Epistles
Horace · 3 occurrences
Odes
Horace · 3 occurrences
Satires
Juvenal · 3 occurrences
Ars Amatoria
Ovid · 3 occurrences
De Oratore
Cicero · 2 occurrences
De Rerum Natura
Lucretius · 2 occurrences
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca · 2 occurrences
Georgics
Virgil · 2 occurrences
The Golden Ass
Apuleius · 1 occurrences
De Re Publica
Cicero · 1 occurrences
Life of Tiberius
Suetonius · 1 occurrences

Example passages

……dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum…

Ovid — Metamorphoses · Read in context

…iuncta fuit? Non tu in triviis, indocte, solebas stridenti miserum stipula disperdere carmen? Vis ergo inter nos quid possit uterque vicissim experiamur? Ego hanc vitulam—ne forte recuses, bis venit ad mulctram, binos alit ubere fetus—…

Virgil — Eclogues · Read in context

…Accipe cum fletu maesti breve carmen amici Atque haec absentis tura fuisse puta.…

Martial — Epigrams · Read in context

Subjects

Poetry & drama

Related terms in Greek (same subject)

ποίησις (poiesis) — Poetry & drama
τραγῳδία (tragodia) — Poetry & drama

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