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desolo

Verb finit

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-sōlo — Lewis & Short

dē-sōlo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to leave alone, to forsake, abandon, desert (not anteAug., perh. first used by Verg.; most freq. in the part. perf.).

(a) Verb finit.: desolavimus agros, Verg. A. 11, 367: agros profugiendo, Col. 1, 3, 11: urbes, Stat. Th. 6, 917: locum, Vulg. Psa. 78, 7.—

(b) Part. perf., forsaken, deserted, left alone: desolatae terrae, Ov. M. 1, 349; cf.: tecta domorum, Stat. Th. 1, 653: manipli, Verg. A. 11, 870.—So of persons, Stat. S. 2, 1, 233; Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3; Tac. A. 1, 30; 16, 30 fin.; Just. 1, 7, 3 (dub.); cf. with abl., robbed, deprived of: desolatus servilibus ministeriis, Tac. A. 12, 26; Plin. 10, 12, 16, § 34: agmen magistro, Stat. Th. 9, 672: aevo jam desolata senectus, i. e. enfeebled by age, Petr. 124; 286. —With gen.: virorum gentes, Sil. 8, 590.

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