The corpus record — Latin

adulo

adulo · v. a

to fawn like a dog

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
De Vita Beata 2 · 2.75/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Historiae 7 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ădūlo — Lewis & Short

ădūlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (a rare form for adulor; hence

Prisc. 791 P. ranks this form, as an exception, among the other active forms of the deponents, adipiscor, admiror, auxilior, etc.; cf. Don. p. 1756 P. and Ars Consent. p. 2054 P.),

I to fawn like a dog: (canes) gannitu vocis adulant, Luor. 5, 1070: caudā nostrum adulat sanguinem (the eagle), strokes, i. e. wipes off our blood, Cic. poët. ap. Tusc. 2, 10, 24, as trans. of Aeschyl. Prometh. Solut.: Dionysium, Val. Max. 4, 3, ext. 4.—Pass., to be flattered nec adulari nos sinamus, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 91: tribunus militum adulandus erat, Val. M. 2, 7, 15: adulati erant ab amicis, Cass. ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.

Where it came from

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