The corpus record — Latin

adulterium

adulterium · n

Adultery

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Where it lives

Fragmenta 1 · 74.07/10k
De Monogamia 12 · 17.18/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 27 · 12.59/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
De idolatria 5 · 7.25/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Severus 2 · 4.75/10k
De Spectaculis 3 · 4.71/10k
Octavius 5 · 4.31/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k

Densest 12 of 87 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ădultĕrĭum — Lewis & Short

ădultĕrĭum, ii, n.adulter.

I Adultery: Adulterium est cum aliena uxore coire, Quint. 7, 3, 10: qui in adulterio deprehenditur, Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 275: mulierem in adulterio deprehensam, Vulg. Joan. 8, 3: cum aliqua facere, Cat. 67, 36: inire, Vell. 2, 45: adulteria exercere, Suet. Aug. 69: adulterio cognoscere alicujus uxorem, Just. 22, 1: vasa adulteriis caelata, decorated with immodest figures, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140.—Of brutes: nec (elephanti) adulteria novere, Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13; id. 10, 34, 52, § 104.—Of plants, an ingrafling, inoculating, Manil. 5, 266.—

II Adulteration: omnia in adulterium mellis excogitata, Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80: mercis, id. 19, 3, 15, § 44.

Where it came from

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