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deflagro

deflagro · v. n

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Where it lives

Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 1 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēflā^gro — Lewis & Short

dēflā^gro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a.

I To burn down, to be consumed by fire (freq. only in Cic.; cf. conflagro).

A Neutr.

1 Lit.: qua nocte natus esset Alexander, eadem Dianae Ephesiae templum deflagravisse, Cic. N. D. 2, 27 fin.; id. Div. 1, 17; id. Phil. 2, 36, 91; id. Par. 4, 2, 31; id. Ac. 2, 37 fin.; Liv. 5, 53 fin.; 10, 44; Suet. Tib. 48: Phaëthon ictu fulminis deflagravit, Cic. Off. 3, 25.—

2 Trop., to perish, be destroyed: communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare, Cic. Sest. 46, 99: ruere ac deflagrare omnia passuri estis? Liv. 3, 52.—

B Act. (very rare): fana flammā deflagrata, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19: quae (sol) proxime currendo deflagrat, Vitr. 6, 1.—*

2 Trop., to destroy utterly: in cinere deflagrati imperii, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 12 (cf. deflagratio fin.).—

II To burn out, cease burning; rare, and only trop. of the fire of passion, = defervesco, to abate, be allayed: deflagrare iras vestras posse, Liv. 40, 8: deflagrante paullatim seditione, Tac. H. 2, 29: iram senis deflagrare pati, Lact. Mort. Pers. 14, 5.—Transf. to persons: sic deflagrare minaces Incassum, Luc. 4, 280.

In the wild

deflagrata Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.1.5
deflagravit Cicero, De Officiis 3.94
deflagravit Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 4.31
deflagrassent Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p53
deflagrati Cicero, In L. Catilinam 4.12
deflagravit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.1.7

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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