The corpus record — Latin

aconitum

aconitum · n

a poisonous plant

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

ăcŏnītum — Lewis & Short

ăcŏnītum, i, n., = a)ko/niton,

I a poisonous plant, wolf's-bane, monk's-hood, aconite, Plin. 27, 2, 2; 6, 1, 1 fin.: aconiton, Ov. M. 7, 407.—In plur., Verg. G. 2, 152; Ov. M. 7, 419; Aus. Idyll. 12, 9, 11; Luc. 4, 322. —For a strong poison in gen., Ov. M. 1, 147; Juv. 10, 25.

In the wild

aconita Lucan, Pharsalia 4.323
aconita Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.465
aconitum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.6.p3
aconitum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.3
aconita Ausonius, Technopaegnion 10.11
aconita Juvenal, Saturae 1.1.158

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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