The corpus record — Latin

digladior

to fight for life and death, to contend fiercely

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Where it lives

Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

dī-glădĭor — Lewis & Short

dī-glădĭor, āri,

I v. dep. n. [gladius], to fight for life and death, to contend fiercely (a Ciceron. word).

I Prop.: cives inter se sicis, Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 20.—

II Transf., to contend warmly, dispute, sc. with words: de quibus inter se digladiari solent (philosophi), Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28: cum aliquo tot voluminibus, id. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 65, 14; cf. coupled with depugnare, id. ib. 15: digladientur illi, per me licet, id. Tusc. 4, 21.

In the wild

digladientur Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.47
digladiatur Cicero, Academica 1.46

Where it came from

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