The corpus record — Latin

dilanio

v. a., to tear to pieces, to dilacerate (rare but class.): (Clodii cadaver) canibus dilaniandum reliquisti, Cic. Mil…

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

dī-lănĭo — Lewis & Short

dī-lănĭo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to tear to pieces, to dilacerate (rare but class.): (Clodii cadaver) canibus dilaniandum reliquisti, Cic. Mil. 13; cf. id. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24; Ov. M. 6, 645; 10, 387; Tac. A. 11, 22; 36; Vulg. Luc. 2, 39 al.—Trop.: animam (c. c. dispergere), Lucr. 3, 538.—In a Gr. construction: dilaniata comas, Ov. Am. 3, 9, 52.

Where it came from

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