The corpus record — Latin

caesim

caesim · adv

by cutting

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

caesīm — Lewis & Short

caesīm, adv.caedo,

I by cutting, with cuts.

I Lit.

A Of the cutting of plants by striking: major pars operis in vineā ductim potius quam caesim facienda est ... qui caesim vitem petit, etc., Col. 4, 25, 2 and 3.—

B T. t. of milit. lang., with the edge (opp. punctim, with the point): punctim magis quam caesim petere hostem, Liv. 22, 46, 5; cf. Veg. Mil. 1, 12; Liv. 7, 10, 9: gladio caesim percutere aliquem, Suet. Calig. 58. —

II Trop., of discourse, in short clauses: membratim adhuc, deinde caesim diximus, Cic. Or. 67, 225 (cf. the same, and § 223, incisim aut membratim); Quint. 9, 4, 126; cf. id. 11, 3, 102 Spald. N. cr

In the wild

caesim Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.15
caesim Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p10
caesim Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.25.3
caesim Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.102
caesim Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p46
caesim Cicero, Orator 225

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Where it came from

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