The corpus record — Latin

cicuta1

cicuta1 · f

the hemlock given to criminals as poison

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Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
Naturalis Historia 30 · 0.76/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cĭcūta — Lewis & Short

cĭcūta, ae, f.,

I the hemlock given to criminals as poison; prob. either Cicuta virosa or Conium maculatum, Linn.; Plin. 25, 13, 95, § 151; Cato, R. R. 27, 2; Lucr. 5, 897; Hor. S. 2, 1, 56 al.; plur., id. Ep. 2, 2, 53; drunk by Socrates; hence: magister sorbitio tollit quem dira cicutae, i. e. Socrates, Pers. 4, 1 sq.—To the extraordinary coldness produced by it, reference is made in Pers. 5, 145.—

II Meton., a pipe or flute made from the stalks of the hemlock, a shepherd's pipe, Lucr. 5, 1382; Verg. E. 2, 36; 5, 85; Calp. Ecl. 7, 12.

2. Cĭcūta — Lewis & Short

Cĭcūta, ae, m.,

I the name of a usurer in Hor. S. 2, 3, 69 and 175.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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