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captura

A taking

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

captūra — Lewis & Short

captūra, ae,

I f [capio] (post-Aug.).

I A taking, catching (of animals); abstr.: piscium, Plin. 9, 19, 35, § 71: piscium et alitum, id. 19, 1, 2, § 10: pantherae, id. 28, 8, 27, § 93. —

II Meton. (abstr. pro concr.).

A That which is taken, the prey: pinxit venatores cum capturā, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 99; 10, 40, 56, § 115; Suet. Aug. 25.—Hence,

B Gain, profit (acquired by low or immoral employments), reward, pay, hire, wages: prostitutarum, Suet. Calig. 40: inhonesti lucri, Val. Max. 9, 4, 1; so id. 3, 4, 4; 6, 9, 8; Plin. 24, 1, 1, § 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 2 init.

In the wild

captura Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.10.p10
captura Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.8.p3
captura Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.4.7
captura Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.4.1
captura Suetonius, Divus Augustus 25.4
captura Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.2.2

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Where it came from

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