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dicax

dicax · adj

talking sharply, satirical, sarcastic, acute, witty

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Where it lives

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
De Oratore 5 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĭcax — Lewis & Short

dĭcax, ācis, adj.1. dico,

I talking sharply, satirical, sarcastic, acute, witty (class.): Demosthenes non tam dicax fuit quam facetus. Est autem illud acrioris ingenii, hoc majoris artis, Cic. Or. 26, 90; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 21; so with facetus, Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221; id. Cael. 28, 67; with venustus and urbanus, *Catull. 22, 2; with lascivus, Caelius in Quint. 6, 3, 41; with cavillator, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 15 et saep.: Satyri, Hor. A. P. 225: dicax in aliquem, Cic. Phil. 2, 31 fin.: argutia, Gell. 12, 2 et saep.—Comp., Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 244; Liv. 32, 34, 3.—Sup., Petr. 113, 12.—Adv. does not occur.

In the wild

dicax Suetonius, Divus Julius 49.2
dicaces Cicero, De Oratore 2.244
dicaces Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.168
dicacem Cicero, De Oratore 2.246
dicacem Cicero, Philippicae 2.78.p1
dicax Tacitus, Annales 5.p2

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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