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bijugus

bijugus · adj

yoked two together

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

bĭjŭgus — Lewis & Short

bĭjŭgus, a, um (contr. form bīgus, bĭjŭgis, e), adj.id.,

Manil. 5, 3; cf. also

I yoked two together (poet.): leones, Lucr. 2, 602; Verg. A. 10, 253: equi, Mart. 1, 13, 8: serpentes, Val. Fl. 7, 218: currus, drawn by two horses, Lucr. 5, 1299: temo, Stat. Th. 2, 723: certamen = bigarum, the contest with the bigae, Verg. A. 5, 144.—

II Subst.: bĭ-jŭgi, ōrum, m. (sc. equi), two horses yoked abreast: telo Admonuit bijugos, Verg. A. 10, 587; 10, 399: desiluit Turnus bijugis, i. e. from his chariot drawn by two horses, id. ib. 10, 453.

In the wild

biiugis Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 202
biiugo Ausonius, Epistularum 7.p2
biiugo Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1300
biiugis Martial, Epigrammata 1.12.8
biiugis Vergil, Aeneid 10.575
biiugum Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.128

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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