The corpus record — Latin

bibulus1

bibulus1 · adj

drinking readily

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Divus Julius 8 · 8.21/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Bello Civili 7 · 2.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 19 · 1.55/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 14 · 1.2/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bĭbŭlus — Lewis & Short

bĭbŭlus, a, um, adj.1. bibo.

I Lit., drinking readily, freely (poet. or in postAug. prose): bibulus Falerni, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34: potores, id. ib. 1, 18, 91.—More freq.,

B Transf., of inanim. things, that sucks in or absorbs moisture: harena, sand that imbibes, drinks up moisture, Lucr. 2, 376; Verg. G. 1, 114; Ov. M. 13, 901: lapis, a stone that absorbs moisture, Verg. G. 2, 348 (qui harenarius vocatur, Serv.); Col. 3, 15, 4: litus, Ov. H. 16 (17), 139: favilla, Verg. A. 6, 227: radix, Ov. M. 14, 632: talaria, moistened, id. ib. 4, 730: medulla, id. ib. 4, 744: ollae bibulae aut male coctae, Col. 12, 45, 3: papyrus, growing in moist places, Luc. 4, 136: charta, blotting-paper, Plin. Ep. 8, 15, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 6, 10, 1: taenia papyri, Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81: nubes, Ov. M. 14, 368 (cf. 1. bibo, B. 1.): lanae, absorbing or taking color, id. ib. 6, 9 (v. poto).—

II Trop., of hearing (cf. 1. bibo, II.): aures, ready to hear, listening, Pers. 4, 50.

2. Bĭbŭlus — Lewis & Short

Bĭbŭlus, i, m.,

I a proper name.

I L. Publicius Bibulus, a military tribune in the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 22, 53, 2.—

II M. (in Appian. Civ. 2, 8, *aeu/kios) Calpurnius Bibulus, a contemporary of Cœsar, consul with him A.U.C. 695, Suet. Caes. 19; 20; 49; cf. Cic. Vatin. 9, 21; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; id. Att. 1, 17, 11; 2, 14, 1; 2, 19, 2; 6, 1, 13; 6, 8, 5.—

III C. Bibulus, an œdile A.U.C. 775, Tac. A. 3, 52.

In the wild

Bibulo Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 2.17.2
Bibulus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.19.2
Bibulus Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 40
bibulas Persius, Saturae 4.50
Bibulus Cicero, Philippicae 11.34
bibula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.5.p1

6 of 92 attestations shown.

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