The corpus record — Latin

bipalium

bipalium · n

a double mattock

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

bĭpālĭum — Lewis & Short

bĭpālĭum, ii, n.bis-pala,

I a double mattock: solum ad bipalium defodere, Col. 11, 2, 17 Schneid. ad loc. (MSS. bĭpĕdā-lĭum; elsewhere only in abl. sing.): bipalio vertere terram, Cato, R. R. 6, 3: bipalio agrum subigere, id. ib. 45, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 5; Col. 3, 5, 3; 11, 3, 11; id. Arb. 1, 5; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159; 18, 26, 62, § 230.

In the wild

bipalio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.6.6
bipalio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.30.3
bipalio Cato, De agri cultura 151
bipalio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.5.3
bipalio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.36.p7
bipalio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.26.p1

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Where it came from

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