The corpus record — Latin

caprea

caprea · f

a kind of wild she-goat

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
De Re Coquinaria 3 · 1.91/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

căprĕa — Lewis & Short

căprĕa, ae, f.capra,

I a kind of wild she-goat, a roe, cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 101 Müll.; Hor. C. 3, 15, 12; 4, 4, 13; id. S. 2, 4, 43; Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214; 11, 37, 45, § 124; Verg. G. 2, 374; id. A. 10, 725; Ov. F. 5, 372; Mart. 13, 99; on account of the hostility between it and the wolf, prov.: jungere capreas lupis, of something impossible, Hor. C. 1, 33, 8.—

II Capreá Palus, v. capra, II. D.

In the wild

Capreae Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.137
capreas Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.4.43
capream Vergil, Aeneid 10.725
capreae Horace, Carmina 3.15
capreae Juvenal, Saturae 4.11.142
Capreae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.6.p1

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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