The corpus record — Latin

bilinguis

bilinguis · adj

twotongued

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

bĭlinguis — Lewis & Short

bĭlinguis, e, adj.bis - lingua,

I twotongued, double-tongued.

I Lit., having two tongues; humorously, of voluptuous persons kissing, Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 15; cf. id. Poen. 5, 4, 65.—

B Transf.

1 Tibiae, with two keys, Varr. ap. Non. p. 229, 24.—

2 Speaking two languages: bilinguis di/glwssos, Gloss.: bilingues Bruttates Ennius dixit, quod Bruttii et Osce et Graece loqui soliti sint, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.; cf. Commod. p. 350: corvinus, Canusini more bilinguis, Hor. S. 1, 10, 30: sed jam bilingues erant, paulatim a domestico externo sermone degeneres, Curt. 7, 5, 29.—

II Trop.

A Double-tongued, hypocritical, deceitful, false, treacherous: tamquam proserpens bestia, est bilinguis et scelestus, Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 28: edico prius, Ne duplicis habeatis linguas, ne ego bilinguis vos necem, id. Truc. 4, 3, 7 (cf. id. Poen. 5, 2, 74: bisulcilingua quasi proserpens bestia): quippe domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis, Verg. A. 1, 661: homo, Phaedr. 2, 4, 25; Sil. 2, 56: os, Vulg. Prov. 8, 13: socii, Sil. 16, 157: insidiae, Claud. B. Gild. 284.—

B Fabulae, having a double meaning, allegorical, Arn. 5, p. 228.

In the wild

bilinguis Silius Italicus, Punica 2.56
bilingues Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 1
bilingues Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.284
bilinguis Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.10.30
bilinguis Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 2.4.25
bilinguis Plautus, Truculentus 4.3

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