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decimo

decimo · v. a

To select by lot every tenth man for punishment, to decimate

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Where it lives

Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

dĕcĭmo — Lewis & Short

dĕcĭmo or dĕcŭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.decimus.

I To select by lot every tenth man for punishment, to decimate (postAug., although the practice itself occurs as early as 283 A. U. C.; v. Liv. 2, 59 fin.), Suet. Galb. 12: cohortes, id. Aug. 24: cohortium militem, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 37 al.— Absol., Suet. Calig. 48.—

II To cause to pay tithes, to collect tithes from a person. —Pass.: et Levi decimatus est, Vulg. Hebr. 7, 9.—

III To select the tenth part as an offering, to pay tithes of anything, Fest. p. 237, 25 Müll.; Vulg. Matth. 23, 23.—Hence, dĕcŭmātus, a, um, P. a., selected, excellent, choice: honestas, Symm. Ep. 3, 49 and 51.—Sup.: juvenis, id. ib. 8, 16.

In the wild

decimas Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.5.19
decimauit Suetonius, Galba 12.2
decimatas Suetonius, Divus Augustus 24.2
décimo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.3
decimavit Historia Augusta, Opilius Macrinus 12
decimas Ausonius, Epistularum 23.9

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