The corpus record — Latin

ablego

ablego · v. a

to send off

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 3 · 2.12/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 2 · 1.51/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ab-lēgo — Lewis & Short

ab-lēgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to send off or away, to remove: aliquem foras, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 55; so id. Cas. prol. 62: aliquo mihi est hinc ablegandus, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 54: pecus a prato, Varr. R. R. 1, 47: honestos homines, keep at a distance, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32: consilium, id. ib. 2, 2, 30: and in the pun, haec legatio a fratris adveutu me ablegat, this embassy sends me away from, i. e. prevents me from being present at, his arrival, id. Att. 2, 18, 3: magna pars ablegati, Liv. 7, 39.—With sup.: pueros venatum, Liv. 1, 35, 2.—As a euphemism for in exsilium mittere, to banish, Just. 1, 5; Cod. Th. 16, 5, 57.

In the wild

ablegatus Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 4.6
ablegaret Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p16
ablegat Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.18.3
ablegarentur Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p29
ablegandae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.22.1
ablegatum Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.25.5

6 of 49 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.