The corpus record — Latin

decies

ten times

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Tacitus 7 · 22.68/10k
Eclogarum Liber 6 · 21.91/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 2 · 18.69/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 2 · 8.64/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĕcĭēs — Lewis & Short

dĕcĭēs or dĕcĭens,

I num. adv. [decem], ten times.

I Prop.: columbae decies anno pariunt, quaedam et undecies, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 147: decies seni, Ov. F. 3, 163: HS. decies centena milia, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10 Zumpt. More commonly absol. decies: HS. decies et octingenta milia, i. e. 1,800,000 sesterces, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39: supra trecenta milia usque ad decies aeris, Liv. 24, 11: ad summam sestertii decies in aerarium retulit, id. 45, 4; Hor. S. 2, 3, 237; Dig. 35, 1, 77, § 3 et saep.—

II Meton., an indefinite large number or sum, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 27; id. Stich. 3, 2, 45; Hor. A. P. 294; 365; Pers. 6, 79; Juv. 13, 136 et saep.: decies centena dedisses Huic parco, etc., Hor. S. 1, 3, 15; cf. Juv. 10, 335; Catul. 23, 20.

In the wild

decies Ausonius, Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 15.19
decies Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.166
decies Martial, Epigrammata 4.51.3
decies Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2
decies Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 5.7
deciesque Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 15.5

6 of 122 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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