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bestiarius

bestiarius · adj

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Where it lives

In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Pro P. Sestio 2 · 1.19/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bestĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

bestĭārĭus, a, um, adj.id. I. B.,

I of or pertaining to beasts: ludus, a fight with beasts, Sen. Ep. 70, 20; 70, 22.—Usu. as subst.: bestĭārĭus, ii, m., one who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter, qhrioma/xhs (persons hired, or criminals: the former with weapons, and as victors rewarded; the latter, unarmed, and sometimes bound, Vop. Aur. 37; Tert. Pud. 22): praeclara aedilitas! Unus leo, ducenti bestiarii, Cic. Sest. 64, 135: gladiatoribus et bestiariis obsedere rem publicam, id. Vatin. 17, 40; so id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5; Sen. Ben. 2, 19, 1: ludus bestiariorum, Sen. Ep. 70, 17; * Suet. Claud. 34.

In the wild

bestiarii Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 135
bestiariis Cicero, In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 40
bestiarios Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.4.5
bestiariorum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.70.20
bestiario Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.70.22
bestiarii Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.23

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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