I working on a literary piece and trying to find the first known use in Latin of of "pulcher" (feminine pulchra, neuter pulchrum, comparative pulchrior, superlative pulcherrimus), e.g., "first known use found in Virgil's . . . ". I do not know Latin, nor am I at all acquainted with linguistics....

For almost every kind of killing there is a word: aborticide: the act of killing a fetus in the womb; feticide. agathusia: the self sacrifice of one's own life for the sake of the greater good. dominicide: the act of killing a master. episcopicide: the killing of a bishop. familicide: a type of...