The corpus record — Latin

ceroma

ceroma · n

an ointment for wrestlers

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

cērōma — Lewis & Short

cērōma, ătis, n. (

I abl. plur. ceromatis, Plin. 35, 13, 47, § 168; acc. plur. ceromas, Arn. 3, 114), = kh/rwma, an ointment for wrestlers, much used in the time of the emperors, Plin. l. l.; 28, 4, 13, § 51; Mart. 4, 19; 7, 32; 14, 50.—

II Meton.

A The place for wrestling: in ceromate sedere, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 5.—

B The ring, the combat, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26; Mart. 5, 65, 3 (in Plin. Val. 1, 25 fin., ceromata is perh. = canceromata, a swelling, tumor).

Where it came from

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